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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-linear situations that are challenging to traditional methods.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-07 Colin Vignon , Jean Rabault , Ricardo Vinuesa

An array of twelve circular-orifice synthetic jet actuators (SJAs) was used to provide the unsteady forcing required for flow separation control over a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) 0025 airfoil at a chord-based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-20 Ali Shirinzad , Kecheng Xu , Pierre Edward Sullivan

Turbulent boundary layers over aerodynamic surfaces are a major source of aircraft drag, yet their control remains challenging due to multiscale dynamics and spatial variability, particularly under adverse pressure gradients. Reinforcement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yuning Wang , Pol Suarez , Mathis Bode , Ricardo Vinuesa

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for active flow control (AFC) to reduce drag in aerodynamic bodies. Tested on a 3D cylinder at Re = 100, the DRL approach achieved a 9.32% drag reduction and a 78.4% decrease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ricard Montalà , Bernat Font , Pol Suárez , Jean Rabault , Oriol Lehmkuhl , Ivette Rodriguez

The aim of this study is to discover new active-flow-control (AFC) techniques for separation mitigation in a two-dimensional NACA 0012 airfoil at a Reynolds number of 3000. To find these AFC strategies, a framework consisting of a…

In this fluid dynamics video, we show current findings on the morphology of an oil-water interface in a torsional flow produced by rotating the upper lid of a cylindrical tank. This video was submitted as part of the Gallery of Fluid Motion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-16 C. -Y. Lai , Y. -T Sun , C. -C. Chang , Y. -Y. Chen , P. E. Arratia , J. -C. Tsai

When fossil fuel supplies can no longer be replenished and hence fossil fuel power generation becomes outdated, wind energy will become a vital solution to the impending energy crisis. A horizontal-axis wind turbine is a widely used…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-24 Mahadi Hasan Shanto , Sayed Tanvir Ahmed , A K M Ashikuzzaman

The purpose of this work is to expand the work of Streher (2017) in order to investigate the aeroelastic instabilities generated by the flow around a moving NACA0012 airfoil. The profile has a chord length of $c=0.1 m and is exposed to a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Larissa B. Streher

The paper presents a high Reynolds number experimental study of turbulent boundary layer separation control on a convex plate using the wavy-wall method, which was initially proposed for a flat plate by Dr\'o\.zd\.z et al. 2021 (Exp Therm…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Artur Dróżdż , Mathias Romańczyk , Witold Elsner

This study investigates the flow evolution around a sinusoidal pitching NACA 0012 airfoil, defined by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), undergoing deep dynamic stall using a wall-resolved large eddy simulation (LES)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-09 Giacomo Baldan , Alberto Guardone

Drawing inspiration from the lateral lines of fish, the inference of flow characteristics via surface-based data has drawn considerable attention. The current approaches often rely on analytical methods tailored exclusively for potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-03 Colin Rodwell , Kumar Sourav , Phanindra Tallapragada

This paper presents an analytical investigation of the solutions to a control volume model for liquid films flowing down a vertical fibre. The evolution of the free surface is governed by a coupled system of degenerate nonlinear partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Roman M. Taranets , Hangjie Ji , Marina Chugunova

We present a steady jet flow-based flow control of flexible membrane wings for an adaptive and efficient motion of bat-inspired drones in complex flight environments. A body-fitted variational computational aeroelastic framework is adopted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-14 Guojun Li , Rajeev Kumar Jaiman , Hongzhong Liu

The separated flow downstream a backward-facing step is controlled using visual information for feedback. This is done when looking at the flow from two vantage points. Flow velocity fields are computed in real-time and used to yield inputs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-25 N. Gautier , J-L. Aider

We carried out high-resolution large-eddy simulations (LESs) to investigate the effects of several separation-control approaches on a NACA4412 wing section with spanwise width of $L_z = 0.6$ at an angle of attack of $AoA=11^{\circ}$ at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-25 Yuning Wang , Fermin Mallor , Carlos Guardiola , Raffaello Mariani , Ricardo Vinuesa

This fluid dynamics video shows the different interaction mechanisms of coalescence-induced droplet jumping during condensation on a nanostructured superhydrophobic surface. High speed imaging was used to show jumping behavior on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-14 Nenad Miljkovic , Daniel J. Preston , Ryan Enright , Evelyn N. Wang

We perform DNS of flow over finite-aspect-ratio NACA 0015 wings to characterize the tip effects on the wake dynamics. This study focuses on the development of three-dimensional separated flow over the wing, and discuss flow structures…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Kai Zhang , Shelby Hayostek , Michael Amitay , Wei He , Vassilios Theofilis , Kunihiko Taira

The real power of artificial intelligence appears in reinforcement learning, which is computationally and physically more sophisticated due to its dynamic nature. Rotation and injection are some of the proven ways in active flow control for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Kamyar Dobakhti , Jafar Ghazanfarian

Falling liquid films become unstable due to inertial effects when the fluid layer is sufficiently thick or the slope sufficiently steep. This free surface flow of a single fluid layer has industrial applications including coating and heat…

In this work, we have performed numerical simulations of the flapping motion of a rectangular wing in a three-dimensional flow field using the discrete vortex method (DVM). The DVM method is computationally more convenient because it does…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-28 Rahul Kumar , Srikant S. Padhee , Devranjan Samanta