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Numerical simulation of turbulent fluid dynamics needs to either parameterize turbulence-which introduces large uncertainties-or explicitly resolve the smallest scales-which is prohibitively expensive. Here we provide evidence through…

The increasing scale and nonlinearity of modern energy and power system problems pose significant challenges to classical numerical solvers. In parallel, advances in quantum and quantum-inspired hardware are expected to improve scalability…

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We discuss the viability of ensemble simulations of fluid flows on quantum computers. The basic idea is to formulate a functional Liouville equation for the probability distribution of the flow field configuration and recognize that, due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Sauro Succi , Wael Itani , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , Rene Steijl

Efficient simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow is a long standing problem in applied mathematics, for which state-of-the-art methods require large compute resources. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jonathan Tompson , Kristofer Schlachter , Pablo Sprechmann , Ken Perlin

The existence and dynamical role of particular unstable Navier-Stokes solutions (exact coherent structures) is revealed in laboratory studies of weak turbulence in a thin, electromagnetically-driven fluid layer. We find that the dynamics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Balachandra Suri , Jeffrey Tithof , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

The quest for real-time dynamic optimization solutions in the process industry represents a formidable computational challenge, particularly within the realm of applications like model-predictive control, where rapid and reliable…

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With progress in quantum technology more sophisticated quantum annealing devices are becoming available. While they offer new possibilities for solving optimization problems, their true potential is still an open question. As the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Bettina Heim , Ethan W. Brown , Dave Wecker , Matthias Troyer

Introduction: the Navier-Stokes equations are essential in fluid dynamics, describing the motion of fluids like liquids and gases. Solving these equations, especially in complex flows and high-Reynolds-number regimes, is a significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-05 Sebastian Ali Sacasa-Cespedes

The equations of stationary compressible flows of active liquid crystals are considered in a bounded three-dimensional domain. The system consists of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the equation of Q-tensors and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Zhilei Liang , Apala Majumdar , Dehua Wang , Yixuan Wang

We introduce a novel approach to solving dynamic programming problems, such as those in many economic models, on a quantum annealer, a specialized device that performs combinatorial optimization. Quantum annealers attempt to solve an…

General Economics · Economics 2023-06-08 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde , Isaiah Hull

Modern analog computers are ideally suited to solving large systems of ordinary differential equations at high speed with low energy consumtion and limited accuracy. In this article, we survey N-body physics, applied to a simple water model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Sven Köppel , Alexandra Krause , Bernd Ulmann

We investigate the possibility and current limitations of flow computations using quantum annealers by solving a fundamental flow problem on Ising machines. As a fundamental problem, we consider the one-dimensional advection-diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Kenichiro Takagi , Naoki Moriya , Shiori Aoki , Katsuhiro Endo , Mayu Muramatsu , Koji Fukagata

Simulating fluid dynamics on a quantum computer is intrinsically difficult due to the nonlinear and non-Hamiltonian nature of the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE). We propose a framework for quantum computing of fluid dynamics based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-05 Zhaoyuan Meng , Yue Yang

Although quantum computing hardware has evolved significantly in recent years, spurred by increasing industrial and government interest, the size limitation of current generation quantum computers remains an obstacle when applying these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Gideon Bass , Max Henderson , Joshua Heath , Joseph Dulny

The developments over the last five decades concerning numerical discretisations of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations have lead to reliable tools for their approximation: those include stable methods to properly address the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Dominic Breit , Andreas Prohl , Jörn Wichmann

It was recently shown that certain subsurface hydrological inverse problems -- here framed as determining the composition of an aquifer from pressure readings -- can be solved on a quantum annealer. However, the quantum annealer performance…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-21 John K. Golden , Daniel O'Malley

The description of electron-electron interactions in transport problems is both analytically and numerically difficult. Here we show that a much simpler description of electron transport in the presence of interactions can be achieved in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto D'Agosta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

A new algorithm for solving the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) on a quantum device is presented. For the fluid flow equations the stream function-vorticity formulation is adopted, while the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is utilized for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Ljubomir Budinski

We review here the recent success in quantum annealing, i.e., optimization of the cost or energy functions of complex systems utilizing quantum fluctuations. The concept is introduced in successive steps through the studies of mapping of…

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