This research gauges the ability of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques to assist the optimization and control of fluid mechanical systems. It combines a novel, "degenerate" version of the proximal policy optimization (PPO) algorithm, that trains a neural network in optimizing the system only once per learning episode, and an in-house stabilized finite elements environment implementing the variational multiscale (VMS) method, that computes the numerical reward fed to the neural network... (read more)
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