Real-Time Reconstruction of Fluid Flow under Unknown Disturbance

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)

1Tohoku University 2Chuzhou University and Void Dimensions

Let It Flow

Through reinforcement learning, we recreate the detailed water motion from the movement of a few buoys in real time.

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BibTeX

        
          @article{chu2024flowrecon,
          author = {Chu, Kinfung and Huang, Jiawei and Takana, Hidemasa and Kitamura, Yoshifumi},
          title = {Real-Time Reconstruction of Fluid Flow under Unknown Disturbance},
          year = {2023},
          issue_date = {February 2024},
          publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
          address = {New York, NY, USA},
          volume = {43},
          number = {1},
          issn = {0730-0301},
          url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3624011},
          doi = {10.1145/3624011},
          journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
          month = oct,
          articleno = {4},
          numpages = {14},
          keywords = {parameter optimization, SPH, Fluid simulation, reinforcement learning, fluid tracking}
          }
        
      

Press Release

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