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Bluff body uses deep-reinforcement-learning trained active flow control to achieve hydrodynamic stealth
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We propose a novel active-flow-control (AFC) strategy for bluff bodies to hide their hydrodynamic traces from predators. A group of windward-suction-leeward-blowing (WSLB) actuators are adopted to control the wake of a circular cylinder submerged in a uniform flow. An array of velocity sensors are deployed in the near wake to provide feedback signals. Through the data-driven deep reinforcement learning (DRL), effective control strategies are trained for the WSLB actuation to mitigate the cylinder's hydrodynamic signatures, i.e., strong shears and periodically shed vortices. Only a 0.29% deficit in streamwise velocity is detected, which is a 99.5% reduction from the uncontrolled value. The same control strategy is found to be also effective when the cylinder undergoes transverse vortex-induced vibration (VIV). The findings from this study can shed some lights on the design and operation of underwater structures and robotics to achieve hydrodynamic stealth.
- Subjects :
- Physics - Fluid Dynamics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2010.10429
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0060690