Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane & Edinburgh Target Quantum Fluid-Dynamics Simulation

Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane, and the University of Edinburgh's EPCC sign a multi-year agreement to run hybrid quantum-classical workflows on Quantinuum's 98-qubit Helios trapped-ion processor, targeting the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) subroutines used in gas turbine design. Rolls-Royce supplies industrial design use cases and domain expertise, Riverlane contributes quantum error correction and algorithmic work, and EPCC brings supercomputing and hybrid-workflow integration — building on earlier collaboration that scoped the algorithmic and data requirements for tackling CFD with quantum hardware. It is Quantinuum's first named aerospace use case since its June 2026 Nasdaq debut, and Helios's gate fidelity has been independently verified by Sandia National Laboratories in a paper published in Nature.