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most citedActive flow control for drag reduction through multi-agent reinforcement learning on a turbulent cylinder at

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13 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Timescale Separation Enables Deep Reinforcement Learning Control of Rotating Detonation Engine Mode Transitions

Kristian Holme, Jean Rabault, Ricardo Vinuesa +1

Rotating detonation engines (RDEs) are a promising propulsion concept that may offer higher thermodynamic efficiency and specific impulse than conventional systems, but nonlinear p…

cs.CE2025★ 1 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Active Flow Control around a Three-Dimensional Flow-Separated Wing at Re = 1,000

R. Montalà, B. Font, P. Suárez +4

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…

cs.CE2025★ 1 cited

Discovering Flow Separation Control Strategies in 3D Wings via Deep Reinforcement Learning

R. Montalà, B. Font, P. Suárez +4

In this work, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is applied to active flow control (AFC) over a threedimensional SD7003 wing at a Reynolds number of Re = 60,000 and angle of attack…

physics.flu-dyn2025

SmartFlow: A CFD-solver-agnostic deep reinforcement learning framework for computational fluid dynamics on HPC platforms

Maochao Xiao, Yuning Wang, Felix Rodach +15

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is emerging as a powerful tool for fluid-dynamics research, encompassing active flow control, autonomous navigation, turbulence modeling and disco…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Deep-reinforcement-learning-based separation control in a two-dimensional airfoil

Xavier Garcia, Arnau Miró, Pol Suárez +5

The aim of this study is to discover new active-flow-control (AFC) techniques for separation mitigation in a two-dimensional NACA 0012 airfoil at a Reynolds number of 3000. To find…

cs.LG2024

Towards Active Flow Control Strategies Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

Ricard Montalà, Bernat Font, Pol Suárez +3

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for active flow control (AFC) to reduce drag in aerodynamic bodies. Tested on a 3D cylinder at Re = 100, the DRL a…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Navigation in a simplified Urban Flow through Deep Reinforcement Learning

Federica Tonti, Jean Rabault, Ricardo Vinuesa

The increasing number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments requires a strategy to minimize their environmental impact, both in terms of energy efficiency and no…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for the control of three-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Joel Vasanth, Jean Rabault, Francisco Alcántara-Ávila +2

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has found application in numerous use-cases pertaining to flow control. Multi-agent RL (MARL), a variant of DRL, has shown to be more effective th…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Advanced deep-reinforcement-learning methods for flow control: group-invariant and positional-encoding networks improve learning speed and quality

Joongoo Jeon, Jean Rabault, Joel Vasanth +3

Flow control is key to maximize energy efficiency in a wide range of applications. However, traditional flow-control methods face significant challenges in addressing non-linear sy…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 5 cited

Active flow control for drag reduction through multi-agent reinforcement learning on a turbulent cylinder at

P. Suárez, F. Álcantara-Ávila, A. Miró +4

This study presents novel drag reduction active-flow-control (AFC) strategies} for a three-dimensional cylinder immersed in a flow at a Reynolds number based on freestream velocity…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Flow control of three-dimensional cylinders transitioning to turbulence via multi-agent reinforcement learning

P. Suárez, F. Alcántara-Ávila, J. Rabault +4

Designing active-flow-control (AFC) strategies for three-dimensional (3D) bluff bodies is a challenging task with critical industrial implications. In this study we explore the pot…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Decoding complexity: how machine learning is redefining scientific discovery

Ricardo Vinuesa, Paola Cinnella, Jean Rabault +10

As modern scientific instruments generate vast amounts of data and the volume of information in the scientific literature continues to grow, machine learning (ML) has become an ess…

cs.LG2024

Solving Partial Differential Equations with Equivariant Extreme Learning Machines

Hans Harder, Jean Rabault, Ricardo Vinuesa +2

We utilize extreme-learning machines for the prediction of partial differential equations (PDEs). Our method splits the state space into multiple windows that are predicted individ…