Closed-loop wall control learnt by multi-agent reinforcement learning can lower skin-friction drag in turbulent channels, but these gradient-based policies are trained on small periodic boxes and exhibit reduced performance when carried over to a larger domain. We recently showed that such policies are also prone to saturated bang-bang actuations that collapse into standing streamwise waves whose scale is set by the computational box rather than by the near-wall cycle, and proposed architectural fixes that avoid these degeneracies.
arXiv:2607. 12626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop wall control learnt by multi-agent reinforcement learning can lower skin-friction drag in turbulent channels, but these gradient-based policies are trained on small periodic boxes and exhibit reduced performance when carried over to a larger domain.
By Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel P\'erez Cuadrado, Alfredo Pinelli
arXiv:2606. 06227v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A reinforcement-learning agent maximises its reward, which can diverge from the outcome its designer intended.
By Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel P\'erez-Cuadrado, Alfredo Pinelli
arXiv:2607. 01528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small multirotor aircraft are increasingly tasked with operations in the atmospheric boundary layer, where turbulent winds comparable to the vehicle's airspeed degrade trajectory tracking and can defeat conventional feedback control.
By Abdullah Al Tasim, Wei Sun
arXiv:2512. 17534v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modeling and controlling fluids is critical across science and engineering.
By Christian Lagemann, Sajeda Mokbel, Miro Gondrum, Mario R\"uttgers, Yuning Wang, Pol Su\'arez, Ludger Paehler, Deniz A. Bezgin, Aaron B. Buhendwa, Jared L. Callaham, Samuel Ahnert, Nicholas Zolman, Xiao Shao, Jean-Christophe Loiseau, Nikolaus Adams, Matthias Meinke, Wolfgang Schr\"oder, Kai Lagemann, Esther Lagemann, Ricardo Vinuesa, Steven L. Brunton
arXiv:2606. 06227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A reinforcement-learning agent maximises its reward, which can diverge from the outcome its designer intended.
By Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi, Miguel P\'erez-Cuadrado, Alfredo Pinelli
arXiv:2607. 11565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active flow control involves nonlinear dynamics, partial observations, and computationally expensive simulations, making controller design particularly challenging.
By Paul Garnier, Jonathan Viquerat, Elie Hachem
arXiv:2606. 07724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is crucial to vehicle aerodynamic analysis, but its cost still constrains early-stage design exploration.
By Kangkang Qi, Huiyu Yang, Keqi Ding, Yunpeng Wang, Yuntian Chen, Yuanwei Bin, Rikui Zhang, Jianchun Wang
arXiv:2601. 23225v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly deployed in resource-constrained environments, yet go-to function approximators - multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) - are often parameter-inefficient due to an imperfect inductive bias for the smooth structure of many value functions.
By Rajib Mostakim, Reza T. Batley, Sourav Saha
arXiv:2507. 17786v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) based adaptive optimization algorithm for aerodynamic shape optimization focused on dimensionality reduction.
By Florian Sobieczky, Alfredo Lopez, Erika Dudkin, Christopher Lackner, Matthias Hochsteger, Bernhard Scheichl, Helmut Sobieczky
arXiv:2608. 17894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates the feasibility of using residual learning to improve unsteady aerodynamic load prediction for aeroelastic applications.
By Divya Sanghi, Carlos E. S. Cesnik
arXiv:2607. 18309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsteady aerodynamic phenomena, such as gusts, turbulence, and fluid-structure interactions affect an aircraft during flight.
By Henrik Lange, Reik Thormann, Philipp Bekemeyer