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I review recent developments in the field of relativistic hydrodynamics and its application to the bulk dynamics in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy- Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In particular, I…
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Identified particle elliptic flow results are presented for the Au+Au reaction at sqrt[s_{NN}] = 200$ GeV as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity. Data at pseudorapidities eta approximately equal to 0, 1, and 3.4 were…
The $\mathrm{n^{th}}$-order linear flow coefficients $\mathrm{v^L_n \, (n=2,3,4,5)}$, and the corresponding nonlinear mode-coupled ($\mathrm{mc}$) coefficients $\mathrm{v^{mc}_{4,(2,2)}}$, $\mathrm{v^{mc}_{5,(2,3)}}$,…
Elliptic flow measurements are presented and discussed with emphasis on the hydrodynamic character of the hot and dense QCD matter created in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. Predictions from perfect fluid hydrodynamics for the scaling of the…
In order to understand the detailed dynamics of systems produced in $pp$ collisions, it is essential to know about the Equation of State (EoS) and various thermodynamic properties. In this work, we study the shear viscosity to entropy…
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The ratio of shear viscosity ($\eta$) to entropy density ($s$) for an equilibrated system is investigated in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions below 100$A$ MeV within the framework of the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) model .…