Opportunities for Quantum Computation in Computational Fluid Dynamics

The computational fluid dynamics is a modern study that utilize computational methods such as the direct numerical simulation, and analyze or simulate the interested fluid mechanical models such as air foils and the turbulence model. This paper reports the acquired knowledge of a literature research and introduces the computational fluid dynamics and algorithms of quantum computation as well as discusses examples of applications of the quantum computation algorithms. Quantum computation or quantum information is an area that utilizes the properties of quanta and try to build various quantum circuits or even quantum computers. On the one hand, it has an analogy to the classical computation; on the other hand, it also gains uniqueness and superiority at problem solving. Compared with the classical computing methods, the quantum algorithms can be quite faster at computing with higher accuracy as well as security. Due to the demand of improvement with respect to the computational methods in this area and the recent development in quantum computation field, there exists an opportunity to closely relate these two areas. By constructing new quantum algorithms, the computing methods can be expected to be exponentially faster than classical computing methods. A proposal is raised to consider the features of the quanta and try to apply the advantages towards the computational fluid dynamics.