Flow Control III: Theory

Presentations

• Stabilisation of a shadowing-based method for sensitivity analysis of turbulent flows using minimal energy optimal control

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2025, 5:25 PM – Nov. 23, 2025, 5:38 PM

  Presenters

  • Liang Fang

    Imperial College London

  Authors

  • Liang Fang

    Imperial College London

  • George Papadakis

    Imperial College London

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• Cluster-Based Latent Control of Unsteady Fluid Flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2025, 5:38 PM – Nov. 23, 2025, 5:51 PM

  Presenters

  • Khalid Rafiq

    University of Nevada, Reno

  Authors

  • Khalid Rafiq

    University of Nevada, Reno

  • Aditya G G Nair

    University of Nevada, Reno

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• Higher-order equivalent boundary conditions for riblets and the role of nonlinearities

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2025, 5:51 PM – Nov. 23, 2025, 6:04 PM

  Publication: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22239 Journal of Fluid Mechanics, submitted.

  Presenters

  • Paolo Luchini

    University of Salerno

  Authors

  • Paolo Luchini

    University of Salerno

  • Daniel Chung

    University of Melbourne

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• Zero-shot generalizable deep reinforcement learning for drag-reduction control on turbulent wing sections

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2025, 6:04 PM – Nov. 23, 2025, 6:17 PM

  Presenters

  • Yuning Wang

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  Authors

  • Yuning Wang

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  • Pol Suarez

    FLOW, Department of Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 10044, Sweden

  • Ricardo Vinuesa

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

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• Limitations of linear closed-loop control applied to practical fluid flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2025, 6:17 PM – Nov. 23, 2025, 6:30 PM

  Publication: A journal article is planned based on this talk.

  Presenters

  • Chris James Nicholls

    University of Oxford

  Authors

  • Chris James Nicholls

    University of Oxford

  • Marko Bacic

    University of Oxford

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• Information-Theoretic Guarantees on Forward Set Invariance: Application to Energy Control in Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2025, 6:30 PM – Nov. 23, 2025, 6:43 PM

  Presenters

  • Tristan Villanueva

    Caltech

  Authors

  • Tristan Villanueva

    Caltech

  • Gonzalo Arranz

    Caltech

  • Adrian Lozano-Duran

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology; California Instituite of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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