Bavarian Quantum Computing eXchange
Where Quantum Computing and Supercomputing Meet
Quantum Computing: An Opportunity for Simulating Fluid?
Transport phenomena remains nowadays still the most challenging unsolved problem in computational physics, though the high-performance computing has been applied. Using classical simulations of accident scenarios in advanced reactors as example, the advantage and disadvantage of current multi-physics code systems coupling reactor kinetics and fluid dynamics are shortly presented. As the tomorrow’ technology, quantum computing opens however a grand new perspective for numerical simulations for transport phenomena. Taking fluid mechanics as a concrete application, the possible quantum algorithms are intensive reviewed. The opportunities and challenges of quantum computing for simulating fluid are discussed and foreseen.
Prof. Dr. Rui Li
Born in 1983, since 2018 Dr. Li has been a tenured professor at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology. He was a scientific researcher (2012‒2018) at the Institute of Nuclear and Energy Technology (IKET) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology (2012) with the topic “Computational fluid dynamics study on liquid droplet impingement erosion in a bent pipe”. Li has many years of experience in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer enhancement, two-phase flow, turbulence modelling, erosion and corrosion, reactor physics and thermal hydraulic analysis, high performance computing. He has been involved in and contributed to the major European Commission FP-7 projects for fast reactor safety study. Li has written/contributed to 24 professional archival peer-reviewed journal papers, 23 conference proceeding papers and 20 technical deliverables to European Commission, and Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority. Current research is quantum computational fluid dynamics.
