Self-consistent core-pedestal transport simulations with neural network accelerated models
Abstract
Fusion whole device modeling simulations require comprehensive models that are simultaneously physically accurate, fast, robust, and predictive. In this paper we describe the development of two neural-network (NN) based models as a means to perform a snon-linear multivariate regression of theory-based models for the core turbulent transport fluxes, and the pedestal structure. Specifically, we find that a NN-based approach can be used to consistently reproduce the results of the TGLF and EPED1 theory-based models over a broad range of plasma regimes, and with a computational speedup of several orders of magnitudes. These models are then integrated into a predictive workflow that allows prediction with self-consistent core-pedestal coupling of the kinetic profiles within the last closed flux surface of the plasma. Finally, the NN paradigm is capable of breaking the speed-accuracy trade-off that is expected of traditional numerical physics models, and can provide the missing link towards self-consistent coupled core-pedestal whole device modeling simulations that are physically accurate and yet take only seconds to run.
- Authors:
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Politecnico di Torino, Torino (Italy)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1374389
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER54309
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 57; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; neural networks; transport; pedestal; tokamak
Citation Formats
Meneghini, Orso, Smith, Sterling P., Snyder, Philip B., Staebler, Gary M., Candy, Jeffrey, Belli, E., Lao, Lang L., Kostuk, Mark, Luce, Timothy C., Luda, Teobaldo, Park, Jin Myung, and Poli, F. Self-consistent core-pedestal transport simulations with neural network accelerated models. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aa7776.
Meneghini, Orso, Smith, Sterling P., Snyder, Philip B., Staebler, Gary M., Candy, Jeffrey, Belli, E., Lao, Lang L., Kostuk, Mark, Luce, Timothy C., Luda, Teobaldo, Park, Jin Myung, & Poli, F. Self-consistent core-pedestal transport simulations with neural network accelerated models. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa7776
Meneghini, Orso, Smith, Sterling P., Snyder, Philip B., Staebler, Gary M., Candy, Jeffrey, Belli, E., Lao, Lang L., Kostuk, Mark, Luce, Timothy C., Luda, Teobaldo, Park, Jin Myung, and Poli, F. Wed .
"Self-consistent core-pedestal transport simulations with neural network accelerated models". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa7776. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1374389.
@article{osti_1374389,
title = {Self-consistent core-pedestal transport simulations with neural network accelerated models},
author = {Meneghini, Orso and Smith, Sterling P. and Snyder, Philip B. and Staebler, Gary M. and Candy, Jeffrey and Belli, E. and Lao, Lang L. and Kostuk, Mark and Luce, Timothy C. and Luda, Teobaldo and Park, Jin Myung and Poli, F.},
abstractNote = {Fusion whole device modeling simulations require comprehensive models that are simultaneously physically accurate, fast, robust, and predictive. In this paper we describe the development of two neural-network (NN) based models as a means to perform a snon-linear multivariate regression of theory-based models for the core turbulent transport fluxes, and the pedestal structure. Specifically, we find that a NN-based approach can be used to consistently reproduce the results of the TGLF and EPED1 theory-based models over a broad range of plasma regimes, and with a computational speedup of several orders of magnitudes. These models are then integrated into a predictive workflow that allows prediction with self-consistent core-pedestal coupling of the kinetic profiles within the last closed flux surface of the plasma. Finally, the NN paradigm is capable of breaking the speed-accuracy trade-off that is expected of traditional numerical physics models, and can provide the missing link towards self-consistent coupled core-pedestal whole device modeling simulations that are physically accurate and yet take only seconds to run.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/aa7776},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 8,
volume = 57,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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