Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Designs Physically Reasoned White-Box Fluid Control

The paper presents a method where self‑evolving scientific agents design explicit, neural‑network‑free white‑box controllers for fluid dynamics tasks. By iteratively interpreting simulation data, the agents accumulate control knowledge and refine controller code, ultimately achieving robust control of an underactuated two‑joint swimmer in unsteady flows. The resulting controllers generalize across varying target positions, wake geometries, cylinder counts, and inflow speeds, and 2D control priors successfully transfer to accelerate 3D adaptation.

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• agents
• reinforcement-learning