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 …

Robust active flow control over a range of Reynolds numbers using an artificial neural network trained through deep reinforcement learning

H Tang, J Rabault, A Kuhnle, Y Wang, T Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper focuses on the active flow control of a computational fluid dynamics simulation
over a range of Reynolds numbers using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). More …

Nonlinear stochastic modelling with Langevin regression

JL Callaham, JC Loiseau… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many physical systems characterized by nonlinear multiscale interactions can be modelled
by treating unresolved degrees of freedom as random fluctuations. However, even when the …

Active control of vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder using machine learning

F Ren, C Wang, H Tang - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the use of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations in machine-
learning based active flow control. More specifically, for the first time, we adopt the genetic …

Experimental and numerical analysis of the bi-stable turbulent wake of a rectangular flat-backed bluff body

Y Fan, C **a, S Chu, Z Yang, O Cadot - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The wake dynamics of a rectangular flat-backed bluff body is studied using both the wind
tunnel experiment and Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (IDDES) at Re= 9.2× …

Mechanics of bluff body drag reduction during transient near-wake reversals

Y Haffner, J Borée, A Spohn… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
A combination of passive and active methods is used to manipulate the symmetry of the
turbulent wake of an Ahmed body. Dedicated experiments to study the wake reversals …

Single-and double-helix vortex breakdown as two dominant global modes in turbulent swirling jet flow

M Vanierschot, JS Müller, M Sieber… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we study the shape and dynamics of helical coherent structures found in the
flow field of an annular swirling jet undergoing vortex breakdown. The flow field is studied by …

An empirical mean-field model of symmetry-breaking in a turbulent wake

JL Callaham, G Rigas, JC Loiseau, SL Brunton - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Improved turbulence modeling remains a major open problem in mathematical physics.
Turbulence is notoriously challenging, in part due to its multiscale nature and the fact that …

Effect of base blowing by a large-scale fluidic oscillator on the bistable wake behind a flat-back Ahmed body

D Veerasamy, AR Tajik, L Pastur, V Parezanović - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of the wake behind a flat-back Ahmed body are modified using a large-scale
fluidic oscillator, aiming at drag reduction and the reflectional symmetry breaking (RSB) …

A numerical investigation of the asymmetric wake mode of a squareback Ahmed body–effect of a base cavity

JM Lucas, O Cadot, V Herbert, S Parpais… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Numerical simulations of the turbulent flow over the flat backed Ahmed model at Reynolds
number is obtained. It is accompanied by a large elongation of the recirculation inside the …