Qcfd

QCFD (Quantum Computational Fluid Dynamics) is an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 program/HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions /HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02 call for proposals. Complex fluid flows arise across the physical and life sciences, including climate research and in the energy, chemical, automotive, aircraft, and shipbuilding industries. Therefore, scientific and technological progress is broadly underpinned by the ability to accurately compute, design, and optimize fluid flows. The wide range of length and time scales that need to be covered in such computations and the large number of design parameters affecting fluid flow properties make numerical simulations highly demanding. Current capabilities in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are thus insufficient to meet the future demands of users in academia and industry. The overarching goal of this project is to rise to this challenge by developing a versatile quantum algorithmic framework for efficiently solving a wide range of CFD problems without compromising accuracy. The proposed methodology will be demonstrated on hardware developed in European Quantum Technology Flagship Projects and in the quantum technologies industry. It will prove the feasibility and advantages of our approach using a core set of CFD problems arising, for example, in the thermal management of battery-electric vehicles. The approach will subsequently be extended to a wider class of flow configurations. Extensive validation and benchmarking will provide detailed quantitative information on hardware requirements for achieving a quantum advantage, as well as information on the scaling with the problem size of QCFD and corresponding quantum-inspired CFD algorithms. Please find more information related to QCFD on the project website.