TU Delft is a top tier university and is exceedingly active in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The AIFluids lab was recently established to foster the use of AI in the Aerospace Sciences. Designing more efficient aircrafts and wind farms requires a deeper understanding of complex flows. The AIFluids Lab is focused on two major challenges of fluid mechanics: the prediction and the control of complex, transitional and turbulent flows.
New experimental techniques and high-fidelity flow simulations are providing larger and more detailed datasets. Using AI algorithms, the AIFluids Lab will leverage numerical and experimental data to build interpretable models of transition and turbulence. Our objective is to combine human and machine insights to get to the essence of complex physical flows, be it in air, water or other media.
This research will lead to models that can be used to design more efficient aircraft and wind farms, and to the development of a new category of AI algorithms able to autonomously control sensors and actuators to manage complex flows and improve aerodynamic performance.