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Thermal Conduction in Systems out of Hydrostatic Equilibrium

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We analyse the effects of thermal conduction in a relativistic fluid, just after its departure from hydrostatic equilibrium, on a time scale of the order of thermal relaxation time. It is obtained that the resulting evolution will critically depend on a parameter defined in terms of thermodynamic variables, which is constrained by causality requirements.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9704022,
  title  = {Thermal Conduction in Systems out of Hydrostatic Equilibrium},
  author = {L. Herrera and A. Di Prisco and J. L. Hernandez-Pastora and J. Martin and J. Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9704022},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages, emTex (LaTex 2.09). To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity