Modeling of electron nonlocal transport in plasmas using artificial neural networks

This article presents the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) to predict nonlocal heat flux transport within hydrodynamic simulations. Several cases of laser driven ablation of a plastic target are considered. The database for the ANN training phase is built using the transport module of the hydrodynamic code CHIC. It covers a range of parameters characteristic of laser experiments in the context of high-energy-density physics. Results show that an ANN can efficiently replace a module of nonlocal transport in one- and two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, with an error less than 3% in a radius of 0.5μm and an average computation gain of a factor 433 in two dimensions.