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most citedWake-Informed 3D Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using A* and Neural Network Approximations

13 citations · 16 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.RO2026

3D Underwater Path Planning via Generative Flow Field Surrogates

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) launch and recovery (LAR) into the hull of an advancing host platform requires traversal of a complex, three-dimensional propeller wake whose hy…

physics.flu-dyn2026

WAKESET: A Large-Scale, High-Reynolds Number Flow Dataset for Machine Learning of Turbulent Wake Dynamics

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1

Machine learning (ML) offers transformative potential for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), promising to accelerate simulations, improve turbulence modelling, and enable real-tim…

cs.RO2025★ 13 cited

Wake-Informed 3D Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using A* and Neural Network Approximations

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Stephen Turnock, Karl Sammut

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) encounter significant energy, control and navigation challenges in complex underwater environments, particularly during close-proximity operat…

cs.LG2024

A generalised novel loss function for computational fluid dynamics

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are crucial in automotive, aerospace, maritime and medical applications, but are limited by the complexity, cost and computational re…

cs.DC2024★ 3 cited

Speed, power and cost implications for GPU acceleration of Computational Fluid Dynamics on HPC systems

Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Brenda Vara Almirall, Kiao Inthavong

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the simulation of fluid flow undertaken with the use of computational hardware. The underlying equations are computationally challenging to so…