Relativistic hydrodynamics for heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

Relativistic hydrodynamics is essential to our current understanding of nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultrarelativistic energies (current experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, forthcoming experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider). This is an introduction to relativistic hydrodynamics for graduate students. It includes a detailed derivation of the equations, and a description of the hydrodynamical evolution of a heavy-ion collisions. Some knowledge of thermodynamics and special relativity is assumed.

Lectures given at the Advanced School on Quark-Gluon Plasma, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 3-13 July, 2007

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• Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
• Viscosity Information from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions: How Perfect is the Fluid Observed at RHIC?
• The centrality dependence of elliptic flow, the hydrodynamic limit, and the viscosity of hot QCD
• Momentum spectra, anisotropic flow, and ideal fluids
• Chemical thermalization in relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Aspects of causal viscous hydrodynamics

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