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Autores principales: Becktepe, Jannis, Franz, Aleksandra, Thuerey, Nils, Peitz, Sebastian
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15015
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author Becktepe, Jannis
Franz, Aleksandra
Thuerey, Nils
Peitz, Sebastian
author_facet Becktepe, Jannis
Franz, Aleksandra
Thuerey, Nils
Peitz, Sebastian
contents Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results in active flow control (AFC), yet progress in the field remains difficult to assess as existing studies rely on heterogeneous observation and actuation schemes, numerical setups, and evaluation protocols. Current AFC benchmarks attempt to address these issues but heavily rely on external computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers, are not fully differentiable, and provide limited 3D and multi-agent support. To overcome these limitations, we introduce FluidGym, the first standalone, fully differentiable benchmark suite for RL in AFC. Built entirely in PyTorch on top of the GPU-accelerated PICT solver, FluidGym runs in a single Python stack, requires no external CFD software, and provides standardized evaluation protocols. We present baseline results with PPO, SAC, DPC, and TD-MPC, and release all environments, datasets, and trained models as public resources. FluidGym enables systematic comparison of control methods, establishes a scalable foundation for future research in learning-based flow control, and is available at github.com/safe-autonomous-systems/fluidgym.
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spellingShingle Plug-and-Play Benchmarking of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Large-Scale Flow Control
Becktepe, Jannis
Franz, Aleksandra
Thuerey, Nils
Peitz, Sebastian
Machine Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results in active flow control (AFC), yet progress in the field remains difficult to assess as existing studies rely on heterogeneous observation and actuation schemes, numerical setups, and evaluation protocols. Current AFC benchmarks attempt to address these issues but heavily rely on external computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers, are not fully differentiable, and provide limited 3D and multi-agent support. To overcome these limitations, we introduce FluidGym, the first standalone, fully differentiable benchmark suite for RL in AFC. Built entirely in PyTorch on top of the GPU-accelerated PICT solver, FluidGym runs in a single Python stack, requires no external CFD software, and provides standardized evaluation protocols. We present baseline results with PPO, SAC, DPC, and TD-MPC, and release all environments, datasets, and trained models as public resources. FluidGym enables systematic comparison of control methods, establishes a scalable foundation for future research in learning-based flow control, and is available at github.com/safe-autonomous-systems/fluidgym.
title Plug-and-Play Benchmarking of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Large-Scale Flow Control
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15015