Machine Learning in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

Dear Colleagues,

Flow and heat transfer phenomena widely exist in industry and nature. Recently, researchers have been able to obtain high-precision physical fields by computational and experimental techniques, which has helped further our understanding of the mechanisms and guide engineering design. Through decades of studies, although people have accumulated myriad computational and experimental data, when working on new problems, even similar problems with different conditions, it is usually still necessary to re-simulate or re-experiment. In recent years, deep learning has demonstrated great ability to extract features from, and thus accurately predicting, physical fields, and prediction speed by deep learning is usually several orders of magnitude higher. Furthermore, attributed to the strong nonlinear feature extraction capability of deep learning, deep reinforcement learning is shedding light on solving flow and heat transfer control problems under complex conditions.

This Special Issue aims to collect the latest advances in artificial intelligence-coupled reactive fluids, heat transfer, and flow control, including (but not limited to) deep learning-based dimensional reduction models, physics-informed neural networks, and deep reinforcement learning of heat transfer and flow control.

Prof. Dr. Hongbin Yan
Prof. Dr. Wei-Tao Wu
Guest Editors

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• deep learning
• reinforcement learning
• fluid flow
• heat transfer
• flow and heat transfer control
• optimization
• artificial intelligence