Recent advances in applying deep reinforcement learning for flow control: Perspectives and future directions

C Vignon, J Rabault, R Vinuesa - Physics of fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a variety of problems during the
past decade and has provided effective control strategies in high-dimensional and non …

A review of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction by near-wall transverse forcing

P Ricco, M Skote, MA Leschziner - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The quest for reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions in transport has been a
powerful driving force for scientific research into methods that might underpin drag-reducing …

[HTML][HTML] Flow control in wings and discovery of novel approaches via deep reinforcement learning

R Vinuesa, O Lehmkuhl, A Lozano-Durán, J Rabault - Fluids, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review, we summarize existing trends of flow control used to improve the aerodynamic
efficiency of wings. We first discuss active methods to control turbulence, starting with flat …

Enhancement of PIV measurements via physics-informed neural networks

G Hasanuzzaman, H Eivazi, S Merbold… - Measurement …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) are machine-learning methods that have been
proved to be very successful and effective for solving governing equations of fluid flow. In …

Higher-order dynamic mode decomposition on-the-fly: A low-order algorithm for complex fluid flows

C Amor, P Schlatter, R Vinuesa… - Journal of Computational …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents a new method to identify the main patterns describing the flow motion in
complex flows. The algorithm is an extension of the higher-order dynamic mode …

Aerodynamics of vertical-axis wind turbine with boundary layer suction–Effects of suction momentum

J Sun, X Sun, D Huang - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) has become a research hotspot because of its structural
advantages and omni-direction capability. While a further performance improvement is …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and numerical investigations of aerodynamic characteristics for wind turbine airfoil using multi-suction jets

AM Elsayed, MA Khalifa, E Benini, MA Aziz - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work investigates the effects of multi-suction jets on the NACA 0012 airfoil's
aerodynamic characteristics at Reynolds number Re equal 0.54× 10 5. Experiments and …

Drag reduction on a transonic airfoil

M Quadrio, A Chiarini, J Banchetti, D Gatti… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Flow control for turbulent skin-friction drag reduction is applied to a transonic airfoil to
improve its aerodynamic performance. The study is based on direct numerical simulations …

Numerical analysis of a 3-D printed porous trailing edge for broadband noise reduction

C Teruna, F Avallone, D Ragni… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Lattice Boltzmann simulations were carried out to investigate the noise mitigation
mechanisms of a 3-D printed porous trailing-edge insert, elucidating the link between noise …

Uniform blowing and suction applied to nonuniform adverse-pressure-gradient wing boundary layers

M Atzori, R Vinuesa, A Stroh, D Gatti, B Frohnapfel… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
A detailed analysis of the effects of uniform blowing, uniform suction, and body-force
dam** on the turbulent boundary layer develo** around a NACA4412 airfoil at …