activity
20242026
collaborators

7 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Hierarchical Framework of Runaway Electrons using Deep Learning

Tyler Mark, Christopher McDevitt

We present an adjoint deep learning framework describing the evolution of fluid moments and the energy distribution of the runaway electron (RE) population. We demonstrate that a c…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A Deep Learning Approach to Describing the Plasma Sheath

Ethan Webb, Yuzhi Li, Christopher McDevitt

Despite their ubiquity, the rich physics present in a plasma sheath has inhibited the development of a generally applicable description of this critical region. The present study u…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A Physics-Informed Neural Network for Solving the Quasi-static Magnetohydrodynamic Equations

Jonathan S. Arnaud, Christopher J. McDevitt, Golo Wimmer +1

A physics-informed neural network (PINN) is developed, for the first time, to learn the time-dependent quasi-static magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in axisymmetric tokamak geom…

physics.plasm-ph2026

An Adjoint Formulation of Energetic Particle Confinement

Christopher J. McDevitt, Jonathan S. Arnaud

An adjoint formulation of energetic particle confinement in axisymmetric tokamak geometry is derived and evaluated using a physics-informed neural network (PINN). The PINN estimate…

physics.plasm-ph2025

A Runaway Electron Avalanche Surrogate for Partially Ionized Plasmas

Jonathan S. Arnaud, Xian-Zhu Tang, Christopher J. McDevitt

A physics-constrained deep learning surrogate that predicts the exponential ``avalanche'' growth rate of runaway electrons (REs) for a plasma containing partially ionized impuritie…

physics.plasm-ph2024

An Efficient Surrogate Model of Secondary Electron Formation and Evolution

Christopher J. McDevitt, Jonathan Arnaud, Xian-Zhu Tang

This work extends the adjoint-deep learning framework for runaway electron (RE) evolution developed in Ref. [C. McDevitt et al., A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of ru…