Relativistic flows on a spacetime lattice
Fluid Dynamics
2007-05-23 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
The relativistic extension of non-relativistic hydrodynamics suffers from notorious difficulties. In non-relativistic hydrodynamics where difficulties also abound, it has proved a useful supplement to study lattice models which can imitate viscous fluid flow. In this paper we construct a relativistic spacetime lattice and construct a dynamics of points, thus a relativistic cellular automaton over it, to model relativistic fluid flow. A simple example is also explicitly studied, and some numerical results with figures are shown in the last section.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/9712018,
title = {Relativistic flows on a spacetime lattice},
author = {N. L. Balazs and B. R. Schlei and D. Strottman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9712018},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
33 pages, plus 10 figures. For a PostScript file of the manuscript, you can also goto http://p2hp2.lanl.gov/people/schlei/eprint.html