Deep reinforcement transfer learning of active control for bluff body flows at high Reynolds number

Z Wang, D Fan, X Jiang, MS Triantafyllou… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We demonstrate how to accelerate the computationally taxing process of deep
reinforcement learning (DRL) in numerical simulations for active control of bluff body flows at …

Observation of axisymmetric standard magnetorotational instability in the laboratory

Y Wang, EP Gilson, F Ebrahimi, J Goodman, H Ji - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We report the first direct evidence for the axisymmetric standard magnetorotational instability
(SMRI) from a combined experimental and numerical study of a magnetized liquid-metal …

Mapping the properties of the vortex-induced vibrations of flexible cylinders in uniform oncoming flow

D Fan, Z Wang, MS Triantafyllou… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Flexible structures placed within an oncoming flow exhibit far more complex vortex-induced
dynamics than flexibly mounted rigid cylinders, because they involve the distributed …

A large-eddy simulation study on the similarity between free vibrations of a flexible cylinder and forced vibrations of a rigid cylinder

Z Wang, D Fan, MS Triantafyllou… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The strip theory in hydrodynamics has been widely used for predicting complex vortex
induced vibrations (VIV) behind bluff bodies, but the question of how accurate such …

Bridging Large Eddy Simulation and Reduced Order Modeling of Convection-Dominated Flows through Spatial Filtering: Review and Perspectives

A Quaini, O San, A Veneziani, T Iliescu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00231, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reduced order models (ROMs) have achieved a lot of success in reducing the
computational cost of traditional numerical methods across many disciplines. For convection …

Identification of a non-axisymmetric mode in laboratory experiments searching for standard magnetorotational instability

Y Wang, EP Gilson, F Ebrahimi, J Goodman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The standard magnetorotational instability (SMRI) is a promising mechanism for turbulence
and rapid accretion in astrophysical disks. It is a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability …

An entropy viscosity method for large eddy simulation of turbulent thermal flow in a rotor–stator cavity

Q Du, Y Xie, Z Wang, X Jiang, L Xie - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent flow and heat transfer in a rotor–stator cavity have fundamental importance in both
academia of turbulence research and the industry of rotating turbomachinery. The main …

Experimental characterization of extreme events of inertial dissipation in a turbulent swirling flow

EW Saw, D Kuzzay, D Faranda, A Guittonneau… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, which describe the motion
of many fluids, are the cornerstones of many physical and engineering sciences. However, it …

Unicorn: Parallel adaptive finite element simulation of turbulent flow and fluid–structure interaction for deforming domains and complex geometry

J Hoffman, J Jansson, RV de Abreu, NC Degirmenci… - Computers & …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a framework for adaptive finite element computation of turbulent flow and fluid–
structure interaction, with focus on general algorithms that allow for complex geometry and …

Inferring vortex induced vibrations of flexible cylinders using physics-informed neural networks

E Kharazmi, D Fan, Z Wang, MS Triantafyllou - Journal of Fluids and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We develop a robust computational framework to infer the motion of a flexible cylinder
undergoing vortex induced vibration. Given scattered data in space–time on displacement …