Applicability of viscous hydrodynamics at RHIC
Nuclear Theory
2009-11-18 v2
Abstract
In an earlier work (arXiv:0808.0953) we established that causal Israel-Stewart viscous hydrodynamics is only accurate in RHIC applications at very low shear viscosities 4 pi eta_s / s < ~ 1.5-2. We show here that the region of applicability is significantly reduced if bulk viscosity plays a role in the dynamics.
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@article{arxiv.0907.5014,
title = {Applicability of viscous hydrodynamics at RHIC},
author = {Denes Molnar and Pasi Huovinen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5014},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Presentation at Quark Matter 2009 - contribution to the proceedings. v2: very minor changes in text and labels in Fig. 1