Causal relativistic hydrodynamics for viscous fluids

dc.creatorHeinz, Ulrich W
dc.creatorSong, Huichao
dc.date2008-06-02
dc.date2008-06-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:51:20Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:51:20Z
dc.descriptionWe report on recent results from VISH2+1, a code that solves the relativistic Israel-Stewart equations for causal viscous hydrodynamics for heavy-ion collisions with longitudinal boost invariance. We find that even ``minimal'' shear viscosity eta/s=hbar/(4pi) leads to a large reduction of elliptic flow compared to ideal fluid dynamics. We explore systematically the sensitivity of this reduction to the equation of state, system size, initial conditions, and the microscopic relaxation time in different formulations of the Israel-Stewart equations.
dc.description4 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the Proceedings for Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, Feb. 3-10, 2008, to appear in a special issue of J. Phys. G. Version 2: CERN preprint number corrected and Fig. 1 (right panel) recalculated using full Israel-Stewart equations (see text)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0352
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0352
dc.identifierJ.Phys.G35:104126,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104126
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/203866
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleCausal relativistic hydrodynamics for viscous fluids
dc.typetext

Files

Collections