Recent advances in applying deep reinforcement learning for flow control: Perspectives and future directions

C Vignon, J Rabault, R Vinuesa - Physics of fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a variety of problems during the
past decade and has provided effective control strategies in high-dimensional and non …

A review on deep reinforcement learning for fluid mechanics: An update

J Viquerat, P Meliga, A Larcher, E Hachem - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In the past couple of years, the interest of the fluid mechanics community for deep
reinforcement learning techniques has increased at fast pace, leading to a growing …

Deep reinforcement learning for turbulent drag reduction in channel flows

L Guastoni, J Rabault, P Schlatter, H Azizpour… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
We introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) environment to design and benchmark control
strategies aimed at reducing drag in turbulent fluid flows enclosed in a channel. The …

Automating turbulence modelling by multi-agent reinforcement learning

G Novati, HL de Laroussilhe… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
Turbulent flow models are critical for applications such as aircraft design, weather
forecasting and climate prediction. Existing models are largely based on physical insight …

Robust active flow control over a range of Reynolds numbers using an artificial neural network trained through deep reinforcement learning

H Tang, J Rabault, A Kuhnle, Y Wang, T Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Reinforcement-learning-based control of confined cylinder wakes with stability analyses

J Li, M Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This work studies the application of a reinforcement learning (RL)-based flow control
strategy to the flow past a cylinder confined between two walls to suppress vortex shedding …

Applying deep reinforcement learning to active flow control in weakly turbulent conditions

F Ren, J Rabault, H Tang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Machine learning has recently become a promising technique in fluid mechanics, especially
for active flow control (AFC) applications. A recent work [Rabault et al., J. Fluid Mech. 865 …

DRLinFluids: An open-source Python platform of coupling deep reinforcement learning and OpenFOAM

Q Wang, L Yan, G Hu, C Li, Y Xiao, H Xiong… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We propose an open-source Python platform for applications of deep reinforcement learning
(DRL) in fluid mechanics. DRL has been widely used in optimizing decision making in …

From active learning to deep reinforcement learning: Intelligent active flow control in suppressing vortex-induced vibration

C Zheng, T Ji, F Xie, X Zhang, H Zheng, Y Zheng - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In the present work, an efficient active flow control strategy in eliminating vortex-induced
vibration of a cylinder at Re= 100 has been explored by two machine learning frameworks …

Flow control in wings and discovery of novel approaches via deep reinforcement learning

R Vinuesa, O Lehmkuhl, A Lozano-Durán, J Rabault - Fluids, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review, we summarize existing trends of flow control used to improve the aerodynamic
efficiency of wings. We first discuss active methods to control turbulence, starting with flat …