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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a specialised branch of fluid mechanics that utilises numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze fluid-flow problems. One promising avenue to enhance CFD is the use of quantum computing,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Javier Gonzalez-Conde , Dylan Lewis , Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Mikel Sanz

Digital quantum simulation is a promising application of quantum computers, where quantum dynamics is simulated by using quantum gate operations. Many techniques for decomposing a time-evolution operator of quantum dynamics into simulatable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Takuya Hatomura

Accurately predicting turbulent flows remains a central challenge in fluid dynamics due to their high dimensionality and intrinsic nonlinearity. Recent developments in quantum algorithms and machine learning offer new opportunities for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-25 Han Li , Yutong Lou , Dunhui Xiao

Euler and Navier-Stokes have variant systems with dynamical invariance of helicity and thus (weak) topological equivalence, allowing a strong `frozen-in' (to, or, dually, `Lie-carried' by the \textit{virtual} velocity $V$) formulation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-29 Jian-Zhou Zhu

Quantum simulation is a prominent application of quantum computers. While there is extensive previous work on simulating finite-dimensional systems, less is known about quantum algorithms for real-space dynamics. We conduct a systematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Andrew M. Childs , Jiaqi Leng , Tongyang Li , Jin-Peng Liu , Chenyi Zhang

Recent advances in quantum technologies have enabled quantum simulation of gauge theories -- some of the most fundamental frameworks of nature -- in regimes far from equilibrium, where classical computation is severely limited. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jad C. Halimeh , Niklas Mueller , Johannes Knolle , Zlatko Papić , Zohreh Davoudi

Tensor network algorithms can efficiently simulate complex quantum many-body systems by utilizing knowledge of their structure and entanglement. These methodologies have been adapted recently for solving the Navier-Stokes equations, which…

We employ the principle of minimum pressure gradient to transform problems in unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) into a convex optimization framework subject to linear constraints. This formulation permits solving, for the first…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-15 Hussam Sababha , Haithem Taha , Mohammed Daqaq

Solving fluid dynamics equations often requires the use of closure relations that account for missing microphysics. For example, when solving equations related to fluid dynamics for systems with a large Reynolds number, sub-grid effects…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Archis S. Joglekar , Alexander G. R. Thomas

A new model of nonlinear charged quantum relativistic fluids is presented. This model can be discretized into Discrete Time Quantum Walks (DTQWs), and a new hybrid (quantum-classical) algorithm for implementing these walks on NISQ devices…

Vortex interactions are commonly observed in atmospheric turbulence, plasma dynamics, and collective behaviors in biological systems. However, accurately simulating these complex interactions is highly challenging due to the need to capture…

Fluid flows are omnipresent in nature and engineering disciplines. The reliable computation of fluids has been a long-lasting challenge due to nonlinear interactions over multiple spatio-temporal scales. The compressible Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 Deniz A. Bezgin , Aaron B. Buhendwa , Nikolaus A. Adams

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is central to science and engineering, but faces severe scalability challenges, especially in high-dimensional, multiscale, and turbulent regimes. Traditional numerical methods often become prohibitively…

Fluid simulation is an important research topic in computer graphics (CG) and animation in video games. Traditional methods based on Navier-Stokes equations are computationally expensive. In this paper, we treat fluid motion as point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yu Chen , Shuai Zheng , Nianyi Wang , Menglong Jin , Yan Chang

In a previous work, assuming that the nucleus can be treated as a perfect fluid, we have studied the propagation of perturbations in the baryon density. For a given equation of state we have derived a Korteweg - de Vries (KdV) equation from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. A. Fogaça , F. S. Navarra

Eulerian hydrodynamical simulations are a powerful and popular tool for modeling fluids in astrophysical systems. In this work, we critically examine recent claims that these methods violate Galilean invariance of the Euler equations. We…

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Recent technological advancements show promise in leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena for computation. This brings substantial speed-ups to problems that are once considered to be intractable in the classical world. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Shaowen Li , Yusuke Kimura , Hiroyuki Sato , Junwei Yu , Masahiro Fujita

By introducing in the hydrodynamic model, i.e. in the hydrodynamic equations and the corresponding boundary conditions, the higher order terms in the deviation of the shape, we obtain in the second order the Korteweg de Vries equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Ludu , Aurel Sandulescu , Walter Greiner

We consider two discrete models for the Euler equation describing incompressible fluid dynamics. These models are infinite coupled systems of ODEs for the functions $u_j$ which can be thought of as wavelet coefficients of the fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kiselev , Andrej Zlatos

In this paper, we explore the suitability of upcoming novel computing technologies, in particular adiabatic annealing based quantum computers, to solve fluid dynamics problems that form a critical component of several science and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Navamita Ray , Tirtha Banerjee , Balasubramanya Nadiga , Satish Karra