On: Lenia – Biology of Artificial Life

Yes. See here:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1505 Frisch, Hasslacher, Pomeau - Lattice Gas Automata for the Navier-Stokes Equation (1986)

Citations (5k+) here:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5993777633272177716

See also my other comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757946