The Machine Learning Approach to Moment Closure Relations for Plasma: A Review

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22486v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:20:36 GMT
• Title: The Machine Learning Approach to Moment Closure Relations for Plasma: A Review
• Authors: Samuel Burles, Enrico Camporeale,
• Abstract summary: This review compiles and analyses the recent surge of machine learning approaches developing improved plasma closure models.<n>We highlight the challenges of developing a data-driven closure as well as the direction future work should take toward addressing these challenges.
• Score: 0.12277343096128708
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The requirement for large-scale global simulations of plasma is an ongoing challenge in both space and laboratory plasma physics. Any simulation based on a fluid model inherently requires a closure relation for the high order plasma moments. This review compiles and analyses the recent surge of machine learning approaches developing improved plasma closure models capable of capturing kinetic phenomena within plasma fluid models. The purpose of this review is both to collect and analyse the various methods employed on the plasma closure problem, including both equation discovery methods and neural network surrogate approaches, as well as to provide a general overview of the state of the problem. In particular, we highlight the challenges of developing a data-driven closure as well as the direction future work should take toward addressing these challenges, in the pursuit of a computationally viable large-scale global simulation.

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