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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

Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) has emerged as a promising research field, leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to enhance the performance of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. However, despite its growing interest, QRL…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Georg Kruse , Rodrigo Coelho , Andreas Rosskopf , Robert Wille , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) is a promising paradigm for near-term quantum devices. While existing QRL methods have shown success in discrete action spaces, extending these techniques to continuous domains is challenging due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Shaojun Wu , Shan Jin , Dingding Wen , Donghong Han , Xiaoting Wang

This study investigates active flow control in two-dimensional flows at a Reynolds number of 100 using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). We utilize DRL to develop flow control strategies that enhance energy efficiency and minimize energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Wang Jia , Hang Xu

Quantum reinforcement learning utilizes quantum layers to process information within a machine learning model. However, both pure and hybrid quantum reinforcement learning face challenges such as data encoding and the use of quantum…

The ability to prepare a physical system in a desired quantum state is central to many areas of physics such as nuclear magnetic resonance, cold atoms, and quantum computing. Yet, preparing states quickly and with high fidelity remains a…

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently been adopted in a wide range of physics and engineering domains for its ability to solve decision-making problems that were previously out of reach due to a combination of non-linearity and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Paul Garnier , Jonathan Viquerat , Jean Rabault , Aurélien Larcher , Alexander Kuhnle , Elie Hachem

As quantum machine learning continues to evolve, reinforcement learning stands out as a particularly promising yet underexplored frontier. In this survey, we investigate the recent advances in QRL to assess its potential in various…

Optimizing quantum circuits is challenging due to the very large search space of functionally equivalent circuits and the necessity of applying transformations that temporarily decrease performance to achieve a final performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Zikun Li , Jinjun Peng , Yixuan Mei , Sina Lin , Yi Wu , Oded Padon , Zhihao Jia

In recent years, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Deep Learning have become increasingly popular across a wide range of scientific and technical fields, including Fluid Mechanics. While it will take time to fully grasp the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-09 Jean Rabault , Feng Ren , Wei Zhang , Hui Tang , Hui Xu

Optimized control of quantum networks is essential for enabling distributed quantum applications with strict performance requirements. In near-term architectures with constrained hardware, effective control may determine the feasibility of…

For quantum computing (QC) to emerge as a practically indispensable computational tool, there is a need for quantum protocols with an end-to-end practical applications -- in this instance, fluid dynamics. We debut here a high performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

As one of the latest fields of interest in both academia and industry, quantum computing has garnered significant attention. Among various topics in quantum computing, variational quantum circuits (VQC) have been noticed for their ability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Won Joon Yun , Jae Pyoung Kim , Soyi Jung , Jae-Hyun Kim , Joongheon Kim

This study explores the use of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for active flow control (AFC) to reduce flow separation on wings at high angles of attack. Concretely, here the DRL agent controls the flow over the three-dimensional NACA0012…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-15 R. Montalà , B. Font , P. Suárez , J. Rabault , O. Lehmkuhl , R. Vinuesa , I. Rodriguez

The key approaches for machine learning, especially learning in unknown probabilistic environments are new representations and computation mechanisms. In this paper, a novel quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) method is proposed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Daoyi Dong , Chunlin Chen , Hanxiong Li , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

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…

Advancements in Quantum Computing (QC) and Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) represent promising steps in tackling complex computational challenges. On the one hand, Variational Quantum Algorithms such as QAOA can be used to solve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Georg Kruse , Rodrigo Coehlo , Andreas Rosskopf , Robert Wille , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

The application of quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) to real-time control systems faces significant challenges regarding hardware latency, noise susceptibility, and learning convergence. This work presents an end-to-end investigation of…

Modeling and controlling fluid flows is critical for several fields of science and engineering, including transportation, energy, and medicine. Effective flow control can lead to, e.g., lift increase, drag reduction, mixing enhancement, and…

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for handling highly dynamic and nonlinear Active Flow Control (AFC) problems. However, the computational cost associated with training DRL models presents a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wang Jia , Hang Xu