Anisotropic Hydrodynamics: Three lectures
Abstract
Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a non-perturbative reorganization of relativistic hydrodynamics that takes into account the large momentum-space anisotropies generated in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. As a result, it allows one to extend the regime of applicability of hydrodynamic treatments to situations that can be quite far from isotropic thermal equilibrium. In this paper, I review the material presented in a series of three introductory lectures. I review the derivation of ideal and second-order viscous hydrodynamics from kinetic theory. I then show how to extend the methods used to a system that can be highly anisotropic in local-rest-frame momenta. I close by discussing recent work on this topic and then present an outlook to the future.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.5786,
title = {Anisotropic Hydrodynamics: Three lectures},
author = {Michael Strickland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5786},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
46 pages, 11 figures; Lectures delivered at the LIV Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, June 2014; v2 - some typo fixes