Application of parametric Shallow Recurrent Decoder Network to magnetohydrodynamic flows in liquid metal blankets of fusion reactors
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) phenomena play a pivotal role in the design and operation of nuclear fusion systems, where electrically conducting fluids (such as liquid metals or molten salts employed in reactor blankets) interact with magnetic fields of varying intensity and orientation, influencing the resulting flow dynamics. The numerical solution of MHD models entails the resolution of highly nonlinear, multiphysics systems of equations, which can become computationally demanding, particularly in multi-query, parametric, or real-time contexts. This study investigates a fully data-driven framework for MHD state reconstruction that integrates dimensionality reduction through Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) with the SHallow REcurrent Decoder (SHRED), a neural network architecture designed to reconstruct the full spatio-temporal state from sparse time-series measurements of selected observables, including previously unseen parametric configurations. The SHRED methodology is applied to a three-dimensional geometry representative of a portion of a WCLL blanket cell, in which lead-lithium flows around a water-cooled tube. Multiple magnetic field configurations are examined, including constant toroidal fields, combined toroidal-poloidal fields, and time-dependent magnetic fields. Across all considered scenarios, SHRED achieves high reconstruction accuracy, robustness, and generalization to magnetic field intensities, orientations, and temporal evolutions not seen during training. Notably, in the presence of time-varying magnetic fields, the model accurately infers the temporal evolution of the magnetic field itself using temperature measurements alone. Overall, the findings identify SHRED as a computationally efficient, data-driven, and flexible approach for MHD state reconstruction, with significant potential for real-time monitoring, diagnostics and control in fusion reactor systems.
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