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We examine the applicability of relativistic hydrodynamics far from equilibrium by constructing formal solutions of the Boltzmann moment equations in the relaxation time approximation. These solutions naturally decompose into a divergent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan

We use effective kinetic theory to study the pre-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. We describe the evolution of linearized energy perturbations on top of out-of-equilibrium background to the energy-momentum tensor at a time when…

New exact solutions of relativistic perfect fluid hydrodynamics are described, including the first family of exact rotating solutions. The method used to search for them is an investigation of the relativistic hydrodynamical equations and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 M. I. Nagy

The causality and stability of a relativistic hydrodynamic theory is shown to require a consensus between, either (i) newer degrees of freedom apart from the fundamental fluid fields, or (ii) a general hydrodynamic frame other than the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Sukanya Mitra

Starting from the Vlasov-Maxwell system, an exact relativistic hydrodynamic closure for a special type water bag distributions satisfying the Vlasov equation has been derived. It has been shown that the hydrodynamic equations are fully…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 Stephan I. Tzenov , Kiril B. Marinov

The ideal gas equation of state with a constant adiabatic index, although commonly used in relativistic hydrodynamics, is a poor approximation for most relativistic astrophysical flows. Here we propose a new general equation of state for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Eunwoo Choi , Paul J. Wiita

Relativistic hydrodynamics for ideal and viscous fluids is discussed as a tool to describe relativistic heavy-ion collisions and to extract transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma from experimentally measured hadron momentum spectra.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Ulrich W. Heinz

A new class of accelerating, exact, explicit and simple solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics is presented. Since these new solutions yield a finite rapidity distribution, they lead to an advanced estimate of the initial energy density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 T. Csorgo , M. I. Nagy , M. Csanad

In the context of event-by-event hydrodynamic description, we analyze the implications of two models characterized by distinct initial conditions. The initial energy density of the first model adopts a Gaussian-type distribution, while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-02 Dan Wen , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

Carroll hydrodynamics arises in the $c\to 0$ limit of relativistic hydrodynamics. Instances of its relevance include the Bjorken and Gubser flow models of heavy-ion collisions, where the ultrarelativistic nature of the flow makes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Kedar S. Kolekar , Taniya Mandal , Ashish Shukla , Pushkar Soni

I consider a simple set of equations that govern the expansion of boost-invariant plasmas of massless particles. These equations describe the transition from a collisionless regime at early time to hydrodynamics at late time. Their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Jean-Paul Blaizot

We propose a new theory of second-order viscous relativistic hydrodynamics which does not impose any frame conditions on the choice of the hydrodynamic variables. It differs from Mueller-Israel-Stewart theory by including additional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Jorge Noronha , Michał Spaliński , Enrico Speranza

This paper shows nonlinear stability of homogeneous states in second-order hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations that model the dynamics of dissipative relativistic fluids, by checking a dissipativity criterion formulated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Heinrich Freistuhler , Matthias Sroczinski

We review recent interest in the relativistic Riemann problem as a method for generating a non-equilibrium steady state. In the version of the problem under con- sideration, the initial conditions consist of a planar interface between two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Michael Spillane , Christopher P. Herzog

Evolution process could be calculated from the relativistic hydrodynamic equation with certain estimated initial conditions about a single spherical fireball here. So one could estimate a kind of initial condition qualitatively with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Miao , Zhongbiao Ma , Chongshou Gao

Relativistic nuclear collisions data on two-particle correlations exhibit structures as function of relative azimuthal angle and rapidity. A unified description of these near-side and away-side structures is proposed for low to moderate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Rone Peterson G. Andrade , Frederique Grassi , Yogiro Hama , Wei-Liang Qian

We present new, exact, finite solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics for longitudinally expanding fireballs for arbitrary constant value of the speed of sound. These new solutions generalize earlier, longitudinally finite, exact solutions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-19 T. Csorgo , G. Kasza , M. Csanad , Z. Jiang

We combine Taub's and Ray's variational approaches to relativistic hydrodynamics of perfect fluids into another simple formulation.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Nikodem J. Poplawski

Formulations of Eulerian general relativistic ideal hydrodynamics in conservation form are analyzed in some detail, with particular emphasis to geometric source terms. Simple linear transformations of the equations are introduced and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippos Papadopoulos , Jose A. Font

The initial conditions of one-dimensional expanding viscous fluids in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are scrutinized in terms of nonlinear causality of the relativistic hydrodynamic equations. Conventionally, it is believed that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Tau Hoshino , Tetsufumi Hirano