2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/222675Pre-thermal flow plays an important role in the final state evolution of heavy ion collisions at RHIC. We show that flow has universal features for a wide range of models. This significantly reduces the uncertainty in initializing hydrodynamic models at RHIC.proceedings for 2009 Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics at Big Sky, MontanaNuclear TheoryUniversal Flow in the Early Stages at RHICtext