QodeX Quantum, NSWC Panama City, NVIDIA and RTX BBN Forecast a 33,824-Cell Cylinder Flow on 26 Qubits and Gray-Scott on 52 Qubits, arXiv 2611.10351, 7 November 2026: TRL 3

Erik Connerty, Jonathan Eastridge, Taylor Patti, Gerasimos Angelatos and Ethan N. Evans of QodeX Quantum, Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division, NVIDIA and RTX BBN posted to arXiv on 7 November 2026 a quantum reservoir network run on up to 52 qubits of IBM's ibm_boston that forecasts a 33,824-cell cylinder wake at Reynolds number 1000 and a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system. Measure-and-reset keeps the circuits running about 24 times longer than the qubits' coherence, and the quantum features cut one-step error by 21 to 43 percent against a linear readout. This post reads the paper as dual-use quantum fluid-dynamics forecasting at TRL 3, explains why the authors themselves claim no speedup over classical solvers, and lists the matched classical baseline, the longer rollout and the 3D flow forecast a program office should wait for.