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A Quantum Inspired Approach to Exploit Turbulence Structures

Fluid Dynamics 2022-07-05 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Understanding turbulence is the key to our comprehension of many natural and technological flow processes. At the heart of this phenomenon lies its intricate multi-scale nature, describing the coupling between different-sized eddies in space and time. Here we introduce a new paradigm for analyzing the structure of turbulent flows by quantifying correlations between different length scales using methods inspired from quantum many-body physics. We present results for interscale correlations of two paradigmatic flow examples, and use these insights along with tensor network theory to design a structure-resolving algorithm for simulating turbulent flows. With this algorithm, we find that the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations can be accurately solved within a computational space reduced by over an order of magnitude compared to direct numerical simulation. Our quantum-inspired approach provides a pathway towards conducting computational fluid dynamics on quantum computers.

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@article{arxiv.2106.05782,
  title  = {A Quantum Inspired Approach to Exploit Turbulence Structures},
  author = {Nikita Gourianov and Michael Lubasch and Sergey Dolgov and Quincy Y. van den Berg and Hessam Babaee and Peyman Givi and Martin Kiffner and Dieter Jaksch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05782},
  year   = {2022}
}

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