Using neural networks to solve the 2D Poisson equation for electric field computation in plasma fluid simulations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13076v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:25:10 GMT
• Title: Using neural networks to solve the 2D Poisson equation for electric field computation in plasma fluid simulations
• Authors: Lionel Cheng and Ekhi Ajuria Illarramendi and Guillaume Bogopolsky and Michael Bauerheim and Benedicte Cuenot
• Abstract summary: The Poisson equation is critical to get a self-consistent solution in plasma fluid simulations used for Hall effect thrusters and streamers discharges. solving the 2D Poisson equation with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions using a deep neural network is investigated. A CNN is built to solve the same Poisson equation but in cylindrical coordinates. Results reveal good CNN predictions with significant speedup.
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• Abstract: The Poisson equation is critical to get a self-consistent solution in plasma fluid simulations used for Hall effect thrusters and streamers discharges. Solving the 2D Poisson equation with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions using a deep neural network is investigated using multiple-scale architectures, defined in terms of number of branches, depth and receptive field. The latter is found critical to correctly capture large topological structures of the field. The investigation of multiple architectures, losses, and hyperparameters provides an optimum network to solve accurately the steady Poisson problem. Generalization to new resolutions and domain sizes is then proposed using a proper scaling of the network. Finally, found neural network solver, called PlasmaNet, is coupled with an unsteady Euler plasma fluid equations solver. The test case corresponds to electron plasma oscillations which is used to assess the accuracy of the neural network solution in a time-dependent simulation. In this time-evolving problem, a physical loss is necessary to produce a stable simulation. PlasmaNet is then benchmarked on meshes with increasing number of nodes, and compared with an existing solver based on a standard linear system algorithm for the Poisson equation. It outperforms the classical plasma solver, up to speedups 700 times faster on large meshes. PlasmaNet is finally tested on a more complex case of discharge propagation involving chemistry and advection. The guidelines established in previous sections are applied to build the CNN to solve the same Poisson equation but in cylindrical coordinates. Results reveal good CNN predictions with significant speedup. These results pave the way to new computational strategies to predict unsteady problems involving a Poisson equation, including configurations with coupled multiphysics interactions such as in plasma flows.

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