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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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Hongfu Zhang , Hui Tang

This study employed smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) as the numerical environment, integrated with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) real-time control algorithms to optimize the sloshing suppression in a tank with a centrally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-06 Mai Ye , Yaru Ren , Silong Zhang , Hao Ma , Xiangyu Hu , Oskar J. Haidn

We systematically investigated a reinforcement learning (RL)-based closed-loop active flow control strategy to enhance the lift-to-drag ratio of a wing section with an NLF(1)-0115 airfoil at an angle of attack 5 degree. The effects of key…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Qiong Liu , Luis Javier Trujillo Corona , Fangjun Shu , Andreas Gross

The present study proposes an active flow control (AFC) approach based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to optimize the performance of multiple plasma actuators on a square cylinder. The investigation aims to modify the control inputs…

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 precisely, the proximal policy optimization (PPO) method is used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Hongwei Tang , Jean Rabault , Alexander Kuhnle , Yan Wang , Tongguang Wang

This paper presents for the first time successful results of active flow control with multiple independently controlled zero-net-mass-flux synthetic jets. The jets are placed on a three-dimensional cylinder along its span with the aim of…

We present the first application of an Artificial Neural Network trained through a Deep Reinforcement Learning agent to perform active flow control. It is shown that, in a 2D simulation of the Karman vortex street at moderate Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Jean Rabault , Miroslav Kuchta , Atle Jensen , Ulysse Reglade , Nicolas Cerardi

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has recently been proposed as a methodology to discover complex Active Flow Control (AFC) strategies [Rabault, J., Kuchta, M., Jensen, A., Reglade, U., & Cerardi, N. (2019): "Artificial neural networks…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Jean Rabault , Alexander Kuhnle

This study presents the first experimental implementation of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for the active real-time suppression of flow-induced vibrations in simultaneously vibrating tandem cylinders using rotary actuation, considering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Hussam Sababha , Mohammed Daqaq

Under voltage load shedding has been considered as a standard and effective measure to recover the voltage stability of the electric power grid under emergency and severe conditions. However, this scheme usually trips a massive amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Thanh Long Vu , Sayak Mukherjee , Renke Huang , Qiuhua Hung

This study showcases an experimental deployment of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for active flow control (AFC) of vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) in a circular cylinder at a high Reynolds number (Re = 3000) using rotary actuation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hussam Sababha , Bernat Font , Mohammed Daqaq

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 $M=0.1$.…

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Miguel Beneitez , Andres Cremades , Luca Guastoni , Ricardo Vinuesa

Skin-friction drag induced by wall-bounded turbulent flows accounts for a substantial fraction of energy consumption across commercial aerospace, wind energy, and marine transport. Its active reduction is one of the highest-value targets in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 Atharva Mahajan , Abhijeet Vishwasrao , Yuning Wang , Ricardo Vinuesa

This work reports the application of a model-free deep-reinforcement-learning-based (DRL) flow control strategy to suppress perturbations evolving in the 1-D linearised Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation and 2-D boundary layer flows. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Da Xu , Mengqi Zhang

We present a data-driven numerical approach for on-the-fly active flow control and demonstrate its effectiveness for drag reduction in two-dimensional incompressible flow past a cylinder. The method is based on flow map learning (FML), a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Xinyu Liu , Qifan Chen , Dongbin Xiu

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,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Trishit Mondal , Ricardo Vinuesa , Ameya D. Jagtap

The performances of an original passive control system based on a biomimetic approach are assessed by investigating the flow over a bluff-body. This control device consists in a couple of flaps made from the combination of a rigid plastic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nicolas Mazellier , Audrey Feuvrier , Azeddine Kourta

Despite the low dimensionalities of dissipative viscous fluids, reinforcement learning (RL) requires many observables in fluid control problems. This is because the observables are assumed to follow a policy-independent Markov decision…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-30 Akira Kubo , Masaki Shimizu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is employed to develop control strategies for drag reduction in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent channel flows at high Reynolds numbers. The DRL agent uses near-wall streamwise velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-19 Zisong Zhou , Mengqi Zhang , Xiaojue Zhu