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Although an increased availability of computational resources has enabled high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows, the RANS models are still the dominant tools for industrial applications. However, the predictive capabilities of RANS…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-19 Jian-Xun Wang , Jinlong Wu , Julia Ling , Gianluca Iaccarino , Heng Xiao

Turbulent flows consist of a wide range of interacting scales. Since the scale range increases as some power of the flow Reynolds number, a faithful simulation of the entire scale range is prohibitively expensive at high Reynolds numbers.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-24 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising framework for solving inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), including the reconstruction of turbulent flow fields from sparse data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Khemraj Shukla , Zongren Zou , Theo Kaeufer , Michael Triantafyllou , George Em Karniadakis

The wall cycle in wall-bounded turbulent flows is a complex turbulence regeneration mechanism that remains not fully understood. This study explores the potential of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for managing the wall regeneration cycle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-21 Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi , Luca Guastoni , Ricardo Vinuesa , Alfredo Pinelli

Accurate and efficient prediction of three-dimensional (3D) wall-bounded turbulent flows poses a significant challenge for machine learning methods, particularly in scenarios where flow field data are limited. Physics-informed neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-30 Sunan Zhao , Yunpeng Wang , Huiyu Yang , Zhihong Guo , Jianchun Wang

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

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a framework to build surrogate models for dynamical systems governed by differential equations. During the learning process, PINNs incorporate a physics-based regularization term within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Shinjan Ghosh , Amit Chakraborty , Georgia Olympia Brikis , Biswadip Dey

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

Reinforcement learning is applied to the development of control strategies in order to reduce skin friction drag in a fully developed turbulent channel flow at a low Reynolds number. Motivated by the so-called opposition control (Choi et…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-26 Takahiro Sonoda , Zhuchen Liu , Toshitaka Itoh , Yosuke Hasegawa

This paper focuses on a drag-reducing control strategy on a 2D-simulated laminar flow past a cylinder. Deep reinforcement learning algorithms have been implemented to discover efficient control schemes, using two synthetic jets located on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-23 Romain Paris , Samir Beneddine , Julien Dandois

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are successful machine-learning methods for the solution and identification of partial differential equations (PDEs). We employ PINNs for solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier$\unicode{x2013}$Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-20 Hamidreza Eivazi , Mojtaba Tahani , Philipp Schlatter , Ricardo Vinuesa

Turbulence modeling is a critical component in numerical simulations of industrial flows based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. However, after decades of efforts in the turbulence modeling community, universally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jian-Xun Wang , Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao

This research gauges the ability of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques to assist the optimization and control of fluid mechanical systems. It combines a novel, "degenerate" version of the proximal policy optimization (PPO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 H. Ghraieb , J. Viquerat , A. Larcher , P. Meliga , E. Hachem

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms are rapidly making inroads into fluid mechanics, following the remarkable achievements of these techniques in a wide range of science and engineering applications. In this paper, a deep…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-21 M. A. Elhawary

Turbulence Models represent the workhorse for simulations used in engineering design and analysis. Despite their low computational cost and robustness, these models suffer from substantial predictive uncertainty, most of which is epistemic.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-05 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

In recent years, deep reinforcement learning has emerged as a technique to solve closed-loop flow control problems. Employing simulation-based environments in reinforcement learning enables a priori end-to-end optimization of the control…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-11 Andre Weiner , Janis Geise

We present an algorithm for rapidly learning controllers for robotics systems. The algorithm follows the model-based reinforcement learning paradigm, and improves upon existing algorithms; namely Probabilistic learning in Control (PILCO)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Deep artificial neural networks (ANNs) used together with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) are receiving growing attention due to their capabilities to control complex problems. This technique has been recently used to solve problems…

We train active neural-network flow controllers using a deep learning PDE augmentation method to optimize lift-to-drag ratios in turbulent airfoil flows at Reynolds number $5\times10^4$ and Mach number 0.4. Direct numerical simulation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Xuemin Liu , Tom Hickling , Jonathan F. MacArt

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have gained significant prominence as a powerful tool in the field of scientific computing and simulations. Their ability to seamlessly integrate physical principles into deep learning architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zakaria Elabid , Daniel Busby , Abdenour Hadid