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Relativistic non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamics from the kinetic theory:a relaxation time approach

Nuclear Theory 2021-04-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Fluid Dynamics Plasma Physics

Abstract

We derive the relativistic non-resistive, viscous second-order magnetohydrodynamic equations for the dissipative quantities using the relaxation time approximation. The Boltzmann equation is solved for a system of particles and antiparticles using Chapman-Enskog like gradient expansion of the single-particle distribution function truncated at second order. In the first order, the transport coefficients are independent of the magnetic field. In the second-order, new transport coefficients that couple magnetic field and the dissipative quantities appear which are different from those obtained in the 14-moment approximation \cite{Denicol:2018rbw} in the presence of a magnetic field. However, in the limit of the weak magnetic field, the form of these equations are identical to the 14-moment approximation albeit with a different values of these coefficients. We also derive the anisotropic transport coefficients in the Navier-Stokes limit.

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@article{arxiv.2011.01606,
  title  = {Relativistic non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamics from the kinetic theory:a relaxation time approach},
  author = {Ankit Kumar Panda and Ashutosh Dash and Rajesh Biswas and Victor Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01606},
  year   = {2021}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure