Fluid Machine Learning

Authors: Duriez, Thomas, Brunton, Steven L., Noack, Bernd R.
Guides the reader from the control of simple dynamical systems to real-world experiments assisted by ample supplementary material
Contains interviews with leading experts in the field
Offers extensive color figures with clear explanations
Includes exercises at the end of every chapter and Matlab codes for all examples

This is the first textbook on a generally applicable control strategy for turbulence and other complex nonlinear systems. The approach of the book employs powerful methods of machine learning for optimal nonlinear control laws. This machine learning control (MLC) is motivated and detailed in Chapters 1 and 2. In Chapter 3, methods of linear control theory are reviewed. In Chapter 4, MLC is shown to reproduce known optimal control laws for linear dynamics (LQR, LQG). In Chapter 5, MLC detects and exploits a strongly nonlinear actuation mechanism of a low-dimensional dynamical system when linear control methods are shown to fail. Experimental control demonstrations from a laminar shear-layer to turbulent boundary-layers are reviewed in Chapter 6, followed by general good practices for experiments in Chapter 7.