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Carnot's four-part ideal-gas cycle includes both isothermal and adiabatic expansions and compressions. Analyzing this cycle provides the fundamental basis for statistical thermodynamics. We explore the cycle here from a pedagogical view in…

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I review how hydrodynamical flow is related to the observed flow in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and how initial conditions, equation of state and freeze-out temperature affect flow in hydrodynamical models.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Pasi Huovinen

We study thermodynamic formalism of dynamical systems with non-uniform structure. Precisely, we obtain the uniqueness of equilibrium states for a family of non-uniformly expansive flows by generalizing Climenhaga-Thompson's orbit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Tianyu Wang , Weisheng Wu

We construct a new finite difference method for the flow of ideal viscous isentropic gas in one spatial dimension. For the continuity equation, the method is a standard upwind discretization. For the momentum equation, the method is an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Trygve K. Karper

Equations for a perfect fluid can be obtained by means of the variational principle both in the Lagrangian description and in the Eulerian one. It is known that we need additional fields somehow to describe a rotational isentropic flow in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-27 Hiroki Fukagawa , Youhei Fujitani

We propose a general approach to freezing out fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions using the principle of maximum entropy. We find the results naturally expressed as a direct relationship between the irreducible relative correlators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Maneesha Sushama Pradeep , Mikhail Stephanov

We find numerically that the sample to sample fluctuation of the entropy, $\Delta S$, is a tool more sensitive in distinguishing how from high temperature behaviors, than the corresponding fluctuation in the free energy. In 1+1 dimensions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiao-Hong Wang , Shlomo Havlin , Moshe Schwartz

Although an intimate relation between entropy and diffusion has been advocated for many years and even seems to have been verified in theory and experiments, a quantitatively reliable study, and any derivation of an algebraic relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

We establish the connection between thermodynamic and dynamical instabilities in relativistic hydrodynamics with multiple flavours of conserved U(1) charges. In theories with positive hydrodynamic entropy production, where the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-24 Liam Gladden , Victor Ivo , Pavel K. Kovtun , Andrei O. Starinets

Finite-density calculations in lattice field theory are typically plagued by sign problems. A promising way to ameliorate this issue is the holomorphic flow equations that deform the manifold of integration for the path integral to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-22 Henry Lamm

A review is given of recent theoretical work on the superfluid dynamics of trapped Bose gases at finite temperatures, where there is a significant fraction of non-condensate atoms. One can now reach large enough densities and collision…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Griffin , Tetsuro Nikuni

We develop a comprehensive Hamiltonian formulation for plasma dynamics that unifies collisionless gyrokinetic and collisional processes. Our framework rigorously describes the evolution of free energy and entropy during the transition from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Joseph Samper Finberg

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been extensively applied to high energy heavy-ion collisions. We review hydrodynamic calculations for Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies and provide a comprehensive comparison between the model and experimental…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter F. Kolb , Ulrich Heinz

After briefly touching on relativistic hydrodynamics, we provide a detailed description of recent developments in spin hydrodynamics. We discuss the theory of perfect spin hydrodynamics within two different approaches, which lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Samapan Bhadury , Zbigniew Drogosz , Wojciech Florkowski , Valeriya Mykhaylova

A framework for numerical evaluation of entropy-conservative volume fluxes in gas flows with internal energies is developed, for use with high-order discretization methods. The novelty of the approach lies in the ability to use arbitrary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-18 Georgii Oblapenko , Manuel Torrilhon

Using classical description of spin degrees of freedom, we extend recent formulation of the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics for spin-polarized fluids to the case including dissipation. Our work is based on the analysis of classical kinetic…

We use ideal hydrodynamics to investigate clustering in a gas of inelastically colliding spheres. The hydrodynamic equations exhibit a new type of finite-time density blowup, where the gas pressure remains finite. The density blowups signal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Itzhak Fouxon , Baruch Meerson , Michael Assaf , Eli Livne

Fluid dynamics corresponds to the dynamics of a substance in the long wavelength limit. Writing down all terms in a gradient (long wavelength) expansion up to second order for a relativistic system at vanishing charge density, one obtains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-22 Paul Romatschke

We calculate the ratio eta/s, the shear viscosity (eta) to entropy density (s), which characterizes how perfect a fluid is, in weakly coupled real scalar field theories with different types of phase transitions. The mean-field results of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-01 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Mei Huang , Yen-Han Li , Eiji Nakano , Di-Lun Yang

Entropy is a quantity which is of great importance in physics and chemistry. The concept comes out of thermodynamics, proposed by Rudolf Clausius in his analysis of Carnot cycle and linked by Ludwig Boltzmann to the number of specific ways…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna