MaNN: Multiple Artificial Neural Networks for modelling the Interstellar
  Medium
  Modelling the complex physics of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) in the context
of large-scale numerical simulations is a challenging task. A number of methods
have been proposed to embed a description of the ISM into different codes. We
propose a new way to achieve this task: Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The
ANN has been trained on a pre-compiled model database, and its predictions have
been compared to the expected theoretical ones, finding good agreement both in
static and in dynamical tests run using the Padova Tree-SPH code \textsc{EvoL}.
A neural network can reproduce the details of the interstellar gas evolution,
requiring limited computational resources. We suggest that such an algorithm
can replace a real-time calculation of mass elements chemical evolution in
hydrodynamical codes.
