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Main Authors: Ortiz-Mansilla, Eva, García-Esteban, Juan José, Bravo-Abad, Jorge, Cuevas, Juan Carlos
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15727
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author Ortiz-Mansilla, Eva
García-Esteban, Juan José
Bravo-Abad, Jorge
Cuevas, Juan Carlos
author_facet Ortiz-Mansilla, Eva
García-Esteban, Juan José
Bravo-Abad, Jorge
Cuevas, Juan Carlos
contents Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that is having a huge impact in the different conventional disciplines, including physical sciences. Here, we show how reinforcement learning methods can be applied to solve optimization problems in the context of radiative heat transfer. We illustrate their use with the optimization of the near-field radiative heat transfer between multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials. Specifically, we show how this problem can be formulated in the language of reinforcement learning and tackled with a variety of algorithms. We show that these algorithms allow us to find solutions that outperform those obtained using physical intuition. Overall, our work shows the power and potential of reinforcement learning methods for the investigation of a wide variety of problems in the context of radiative heat transfer and related topics.
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spellingShingle Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radiative Heat Transfer Optimization Problems
Ortiz-Mansilla, Eva
García-Esteban, Juan José
Bravo-Abad, Jorge
Cuevas, Juan Carlos
Optics
Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that is having a huge impact in the different conventional disciplines, including physical sciences. Here, we show how reinforcement learning methods can be applied to solve optimization problems in the context of radiative heat transfer. We illustrate their use with the optimization of the near-field radiative heat transfer between multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials. Specifically, we show how this problem can be formulated in the language of reinforcement learning and tackled with a variety of algorithms. We show that these algorithms allow us to find solutions that outperform those obtained using physical intuition. Overall, our work shows the power and potential of reinforcement learning methods for the investigation of a wide variety of problems in the context of radiative heat transfer and related topics.
title Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radiative Heat Transfer Optimization Problems
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15727