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Second order Galilean fluids & Stokes' law

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-06-06 v1 Statistical Mechanics Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We study the second derivative effects on the constitutive relations of an uncharged parity-even Galilean fluid using the null fluid framework. Null fluids are an equivalent representation of Galilean fluids in terms of a higher dimensional relativistic fluid, which makes the Galilean symmetries manifest and tractable. The analysis is based on the offshell formalism of hydrodynamics. We use this formalism to work out a generic algorithm to obtain the constitutive relations of a Galilean fluid up to arbitrarily high derivative orders, and later specialise to second order. Finally, we study the Stokes' law which determines the drag force on an object moving through a fluid, in presence of certain second order terms. We identify the second order transport coefficients which leave the drag force invariant.

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@article{arxiv.1711.09076,
  title  = {Second order Galilean fluids & Stokes' law},
  author = {Nabamita Banerjee and Sayali Atul Bhatkar and Akash Jain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09076},
  year   = {2018}
}

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32 + 1 pages, 10 tables

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