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Gradient-free learning of a closed-loop wall controller for turbulent drag reduction

Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel Pérez Cuadrado, Alfredo Pinelli

The paper uses an evolution‑strategy optimisation to train a recurrent closed‑loop wall controller that reduces skin‑friction drag in a turbulent channel flow by about 26%, outperf…

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Manifold-adapted radial basis functions for reduced-order modelling of chaotic flows

Miguel Pérez Cuadrado, Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Alfredo Pinelli

Chaotic systems often evolve on a low-dimensional attractor whose geometry varies from one region to another. We propose a non-intrusive reduced-order model that reads this local g…

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Offline accuracy is not enough: closed-loop instability and stabilisation of a wall-sensor neural estimator in opposition control

Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel Pérez-Cuadrado, Alfredo Pinelli

Opposition control reduces skin-friction drag by opposing the wall-normal velocity on a near-wall detection plane, but the detection-plane velocity it requires is not available fro…

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Reward hacking in physical reinforcement learning revealed by turbulent drag reduction

Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel Pérez-Cuadrado, Miguel Pérez-Cuadrado +1

Reinforcement-learning controllers optimise specified rewards, but in physical systems those rewards often capture only part of the true control objective. Three mechanisms through…

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Deep reinforcement learning with spatial and temporal awareness for active boundary control of buoyancy-driven convection

Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel Pérez Cuadrado, Miguel Pérez Cuadrado +1

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) applied to thermal convection control consistently produces degenerate actuation: wall-temperature policies whose outputs are saturated, pseudo-ra…

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Manifold-Adapted Sparse RBF-SINDy: Unbiased Library Construction and Unsupervised Discovery of Dynamical States in Turbulent Wall Flows

Miguel Perez-Cuadrado, Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Alfredo Pinelli

The turbulent attractor of wall bounded flows is not a structureless strange set but contains a skeleton of dynamically distinct states connected by rare directed transitions whose…