Paper
A proof-of-concept for automated AI-driven stellarator coil optimization with in-the-loop finite-element calculations
Authors
Alan A. Kaptanoglu, Pedro F. Gil
Abstract
Finding feasible coils for stellarator fusion devices is a critical challenge of realizing this concept for future power plants. Years of research work can be put into the design of even a single reactor-scale stellarator design. To rapidly speed up and automate the workflow of designing stellarator coils, we have designed an end-to-end ``runner'' for performing stellarator coil optimization. The entirety of pre and post-processing steps have been automated; the user specifies only a few basic input parameters, and final coil solutions are updated on an open-source leaderboard. Two policies are available for performing non-stop automated coil optimizations through a genetic algorithm or a context-aware LLM. Lastly, we construct a novel in-the-loop optimization of Von Mises stresses in the coils, opening up important future capabilities for in-the-loop finite-element calculations.
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