Hydrodynamic Models for Heavy Ion Collisions

Abstract

Application of hydrodynamics for modeling of heavy-ion collisions is reviewed. We consider several physical observables that can be calculated in this approach and compare them to the experimental measurements.

42 pages, 15 figures, An invited review for Nov. 2006 edition of Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Physics

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• Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions
• Relativistic hydrodynamics for heavy-ion collisions
• Effects of fluctuations on the initial eccentricity from the Color Glass Condensate in heavy ion collisions
• Stability and Causality in relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics
• Viscous hydrodynamics relaxation time from AdS/CFT
• System-size independence of directed flow at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider
• A Family of Equations of State Based on Lattice QCD: Impact on Flow in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Eccentricity fluctuation effects on elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Initial condition for hydrodynamics, partonic free streaming, and the uniform description of soft observables at RHIC
• QCD equation of state with 2+1 flavors of improved staggered quarks
• Unified description of Bjorken and Landau 1+1 hydrodynamics
• Azimuthally-sensitive femtoscopy from RHIC to LHC in hydrodynamics with statistical hadronization
• Chemical freeze-out temperature in hydrodynamical description of Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Elliptic flow of thermal dileptons in relativistic nuclear collisions
• Transverse Radial Flow Effects on Two- and Three-Particle Angular Correlations
• Bright branes for strongly coupled plasmas
• Hydro-kinetic approach to relativistic heavy ion collisions
• What Do Electromagnetic Plasmas Tell Us about Quark-Gluon Plasma?
• Entropy production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions and the correlation of shear viscosity and thermalization time
• Rapid hydrodynamic expansion in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Evolution of minimum-bias parton fragmentation in nuclear collisions
• Quark-Gluon Matter
• Dynamical Freeze-out in 3-Fluid Hydrodynamics
• Entropy flow of a perfect fluid in (1+1) hydrodynamics
• Hydrodynamic radial and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions from AGS to LHC energies
• Transport Coefficients of Non-Newtonian Fluid and Causal Dissipative Hydrodynamics
• Elliptic flow in nuclear collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
• On freeze-out problem in relativistic hydrodynamics
• Conservation Laws and the Multiplicity Evolution of Spectra at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
• Direct photons from relativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Azimuth quadrupole component spectra on transverse rapidity ${\mathbf{y}}_{\mathbf{t}}$ for identified hadrons from Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 200 GeV
• Shock propagation and stability in causal dissipative hydrodynamics
• The RHIC azimuth quadrupole: "perfect liquid" or gluonic radiation?
• Extensivity of Irreversible Current and Stability in Causal Dissipative Hydrodynamics
• Predictions for the LHC heavy ion programme
• Dynamical freeze-out condition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
• Flavors in an expanding plasma
• Interplay of the emission from thermal and direct sources in relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Transverse-Mass Spectra in Heavy-Ion Collisions at energies E_{lab} = 2--160 GeV/nucleon
• Freeze-out volume of hot dense fireball
• Quasi-Particle Degrees of Freedom versus the Perfect Fluid as Descriptors of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Does interferometry probe thermalization?