Fluid Dynamics for Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Abstract

I give an introduction to the basic concepts of fluid dynamics as applied to the dynamical description of relativistic nuclear collisions.

49 pages, 22 figures, style files, Proceedings of the 11th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School in Theoretical Physics, Cape Town, February 4-13, 1998

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• Shock-like Freeze-out in Relativistic Hydrodynamics
• Nonequilibrium fluid-dynamics in the early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
• Kaon Interferometry as Signal for the QCD Phase Transition at RHIC

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