Are you passionate about quantum computing, numerical simulations, and aerospace? Join our team and collaborate with industry partners to bring quantum computing closer to real-world engineering.
The aerospace sector faces increasingly complex engineering challenges. Designing the next generation of aircraft, spacecraft, and propulsion systems requires numerical simulations that are both more accurate and computationally more demanding than ever before. While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become indispensable for aerospace design, many important problems—including high-fidelity flow simulations, uncertainty quantification, and multidisciplinary optimization—remain beyond the reach of today’s supercomputers.Quantum computing offers a fundamentally new approach to scientific computing. Although large-scale quantum computers are still under development, they have the potential to solve certain computational problems far more efficiently than classical machines. Realizing this potential requires entirely new numerical algorithms that combine advances in quantum computing with decades of expertise in computational science.
Job description
In this PhD project, you will help develop the foundations of Quantum Computational Fluid Dynamics (Quantum CFD). You will investigate how fluid dynamics can be simulated on quantum computers by designing novel quantum algorithms, implementing software, and evaluating their performance on quantum computer simulators and potentially real-world quantum computers. The project combines numerical analysis, scientific computing, quantum computing, and aerospace engineering in an exciting interdisciplinary research environment.
The team
You will be part of TU Delft's Quantum-CFD Lab, which has long-term experience in developing quantum lattice Boltzmann methods. This position is funded by IHI Corporation, one of Japan’s leading engineering companies and a global technology leader in aerospace, energy, and industrial systems. Working closely with both TU Delft and IHI, you will contribute to research at the interface of fundamental science and future industrial applications in the aerospace sector.
