Case Study: a large aerospace and defense company achieves scalable, high-accuracy CFD simulation with BQP's HQCFM

Achieving scale and accuracy for large scale simulation in Digital Mission Engineering

The large aerospace and defense company faced significant challenges with traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, which became computationally prohibitive for the large-scale, non-linear systems required for aircraft and engine design. The exponential increase in complexity made achieving high-fidelity, real-time simulations impractical with classical high-performance computing methods.

BQP’s Hybrid Quantum-Classical Finite Methods (HQCFM) product provided a solution by leveraging quantum algorithms to solve the complex equations. This hybrid approach drastically reduced computational resource demands; a simulation requiring 1.69 billion cells used only 3882 quantum gates instead of millions of classical cores. BQP's solution also maintained a high accuracy of 10^-5, promising major reductions in the time and cost required for advanced aerospace design and optimization.