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Data‐Driven Discovery of Fokker‐Planck Equation for the Earth's Radiation Belts Electrons Using Physics‐Informed Neural Networks
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2022
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127(7)
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
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Description:We use the framework of Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) to solve the inverse problem associated with the Fokker-Planck equation for radiation belts' electron transport, using 4 years of Van Allen Probes data. Traditionally, reduced models have employed a diffusion equation based on the quasilinear approximation. We show that the dynamics of “killer electrons” is described more accurately by a drift-diffusion equation, and that drift is as important as diffusion for nearly-equatorially trapped ∼1 MeV electrons in the inner part of the belt. Moreover, we present a recipe for gleaning physical insight from solving the ill-posed inverse problem of inferring model coefficients from data using PINNs. Furthermore, we derive a
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127(7)
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ISSN:2169-9380;2169-9402;
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