Quantum CFD Lab

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Quantum Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab

The Quantum CFD Lab, co-funded by Fujitsu Limited, IHI Corporation and through the Dutch RVO private-public partnerships surcharge (PPS23-3-03596728), develops end-to-end quantum applications for simulating complex fluid flow problems on fault-tolerant quantum computers.

More information on LinkedIn and GitHub.

Project leader

Matthias Möller

Duration

01/10/2023 - ongoing

Personnel

Monica Lăcătuş, Zeynab Kaseb, Oscar van Bommel Barcia, Niccolò Fonio

Former members: Merel Schalkers, Calin Georgescu, Alex Sturges

Collaborators

Sato Shintaro, Shinji Kikuchi, Kibune Masaya, Takita Yukata, Wang Jiading, Noriyasu Aso (Fujitsu Research Japan)

Annie Paine, Josh Kirsopp, Stefano Scali (Fujitsu Research Europe)

Emanuele Marsili, Stephen Rolston, Richard Ashworth (Airbus)

Andrew Kao, Christopher Beckwith (Greenwich University)

Selected contributions

  1. Călin A. Georgescu and Matthias Möller. Quantum search in superposed quantum lattice gas automata and lattice Boltzmann systems, 2025. [ DOI | http | bib ] ( citation counts in OpenAlex 0 )
  2. Monica Lăcătuş and Matthias Möller. Surrogate quantum circuit design for the lattice Boltzmann collision operator. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 127(4):e70286, 2026. [ DOI | arXiv | http | bib ] 
  3. Călin A. Georgescu, Merel A. Schalkers, and Matthias Möller. Fully quantum lattice gas automata building blocks for computational basis state encodings. Journal of Computational Physics, 549:114595, March 2026. [ DOI | http | bib ] ( citation counts in OpenAlex 1 | Scopus 0 | Scholar 5 )
  4. Călin A. Georgescu, Merel A. Schalkers, and Matthias Möller. qlbm - a quantum lattice Boltzmann software framework. Computer Physics Communications, 315:109699, October 2025. [ DOI | http | bib ] ( citation counts in OpenAlex 3 | Scopus 7 | Scholar 13 )
  5. Merel A. Schalkers and Matthias Möller. Momentum exchange method for quantum Boltzmann methods. Computers and Fluids, 285:106453, December 2024. [ DOI | http | bib ] ( citation counts in OpenAlex 5 | Scopus 7 | Scholar 14 )
  6. Merel A. Schalkers and Matthias Möller. On the importance of data encoding in quantum Boltzmann methods. Quantum Information Processing, 23(1), January 2024. [ DOI | http | bib ] ( citation counts in OpenAlex 21 | Scopus 22 | Scholar 33 )
  7. Merel A. Schalkers and Matthias Möller. Efficient and fail-safe quantum algorithm for the transport equation. Journal of Computational Physics, 502:112816, April 2024. [ DOI | http | bib ] ( citation counts in OpenAlex 21 | Scopus 22 | Scholar 38 )