Holographic Constraints on Generalised Rivlin-Ericksen Fluid

Abstract

The Rivlin-Ericksen model is one of the oldest models in fluid dynamics to describe non-Newtonian properties. The model comes with two independent transports at second order. In this paper, we study the relativistic origin of the Rivlin-Ericksen fluid. Starting from a relativistic Weyl invariant uncharged fluid in $3+1$ dimensions, we reduce it over light-cone directions and obtain a generic non-relativistic uncharged fluid in one lower dimension with all possible second order terms in the constitutive relations. We observe that the Rivlin-Ericksen fluid is a subclass of our generalised non-relativistic system. We also compute the holographic values of all the non-relativistic second order transports and find that three of them satisfy a universal constraint relation.

18 pages