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This work studies the application of a reinforcement-learning-based (RL) flow control strategy to the flow past a cylinder confined between two walls in order to suppress vortex shedding. The control action is blowing and suction of two…
Real-time control of pumps can be an infeasible task in water distribution systems (WDSs) because the calculation to find the optimal pump speeds is resource-intensive. The computational need cannot be lowered even with the capabilities of…
Turbulent-flow control aims to develop strategies that effectively manipulate fluid systems, such as the reduction of drag in transportation and enhancing energy efficiency, both critical steps towards reducing global CO$_2$ emissions. Deep…
Instabilities arise in a number of flow configurations. One such manifestation is the development of interfacial waves in multiphase flows, such as those observed in the falling liquid film problem. Controlling the development of such…
The present study reports comprehensive bifurcation analysis of flow past a rotating cylinder at a fixed rotation rate by varying free-stream Reynolds number ($Re_{\infty}$) from 1000-6000 in intervals of 50. Two-dimensional compressible…
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a popular method for solving control problems in power systems. Conventional DRL encourages the agent to explore various policies encoded in a neural network (NN) with the goal of maximizing the…
Active flow control of compressible transonic shock-boundary layer interactions over a two-dimensional RAE2822 airfoil at Re = 50,000 is investigated using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The flow field exhibits highly unsteady dynamics,…
The development of a reliable subgrid-scale (SGS) model for large-eddy simulation (LES) is of great importance for many scientific and engineering applications. Recently, deep learning approaches have been tested for this purpose using…
High-fidelity simulations are performed to study active flow control techniques for alleviating deep dynamic stall of a SD7003 airfoil in plunging motion. The flow Reynolds number is $Re=60{,}000$ and the freestream Mach number is $M=0.1$.…
High-fidelity numerical simulations of compressible flow past a rapidly rotating cylinder are used to investigate the evolution of aerodynamic loads and flow instability over a wide range of Reynolds numbers (Re = 1000 to 6000). The study…
Air transportation is undergoing a rapid evolution globally with the introduction of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and with it comes novel challenges and opportunities for transforming aviation. As AAM operations introduce increasing…
We conduct an active flow control (AFC) study on the mass flow rate of synthetic jets on the upper and lower surfaces of a square cylinder using a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, with a focus on investigating the influence of…
A comparative assessment of machine learning (ML) methods for active flow control is performed. The chosen benchmark problem is the drag reduction of a two-dimensional K\'arm\'an vortex street past a circular cylinder at a low Reynolds…
This paper develops a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-agent for navigation and control of autonomous surface vessels (ASV) on inland waterways. Spatial restrictions due to waterway geometry and the resulting challenges, such as high flow…
This paper focuses on the active flow control (AFC) of the flow over a circular cylinder with synthetic jets through deep reinforcement learning (DRL) by implementing a reward function based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). As a main…
Active flow control remains a significant challenge due to the high-dimensional, nonlinear nature of fluid dynamics. Quantum machine learning may prove effective in addressing these issues, given that quantum computing possesses superiority…
A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based model is presented in this study to reconstruct flow fields from noisy data. A combination of the reinforcement learning with pixel-wise rewards (PixelRL), physical constraints…
Reinforcement learning has gained traction for active flow control tasks, with initial applications exploring drag mitigation via flow field augmentation around a two-dimensional cylinder. RL has since been extended to more complex…
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a powerful tool for complex decision-making in machine learning and AI. However, traditional methods often assume perfect action execution, overlooking the uncertainties and deviations between an…
Studies that broaden drone applications into complex tasks require a stable control framework. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been exploited in many studies for robot control to accomplish complex tasks.…