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It is analyzed the effects of both bulk and shear viscosities on the perturbations, relevant for structure formation in late time cosmology. It is shown that shear viscosity can be as effective as the bulk viscosity on suppressing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-10 C. M. S. Barbosa , H. Velten , J. C. Fabris , Rudnei O. Ramos

The relative correlation between the magnitudes of elliptic flow ($v_2$) and triangular flow ($v_3$) has been accurately measured in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC collider. As a function of the centrality of the collision, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Mubarak Alqahtani , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We study the vorticity patterns in relativistic heavy ion collisions with respect to the collision energy. The collision energy is related to the chemical potential used in the thermal - statistical models that assume approximate chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhisek Saha , Soma Sanyal

Using viscous relativistic hydrodynamics we show that systematic studies of the impact parameter dependence of the eccentricity scaled elliptic flow can distinguish between different models for the calculation of the initial source…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 Ulrich W. Heinz , J. Scott Moreland , Huichao Song

Using event-by-event hydrodynamic calculations, we find that the fluctuations of the elliptic flow ($v_2$) in the reaction plane have a negative skew. We compare the skewness of $v_2$ fluctuations to that of initial eccentricity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-31 Giuliano Giacalone , Li Yan , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

In this paper, we have investigated the late time cosmic acceleration issue in the context of $f(R,T)$ gravity. The matter field is considered to be that of viscous fluid. The model has been framed as a mathematical formalism and the effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 Sankarsan Tarai , Pratik P Ray , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

A temperature dependent bulk viscosity coefficient is used in 3+1D hydrodynamic simulations. I study the effect of the increase of bulk viscosity around the critical temperature on the system dynamics in central Pb+Pb collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Piotr Bozek

We derive an analytical connection between kinetic relaxation rate and bulk viscosity of a relativistic fluid in d spatial dimensions, all the way from the ultra-relativistic down to the near non-relativistic regime. Our derivation is based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-23 A. Gabbana , D. Simeoni , S. Succi , R. Tripiccione

In the proximity of the QCD critical point the bulk viscosity of quark-gluon matter is expected to be proportional to nearly the third power of the critical correlation length, and become significantly enhanced. This work is the first…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Akihiko Monnai , Swagato Mukherjee , Yi Yin

Elastoviscoplastic (EVP) fluids, which exhibit both solid-like and liquid-like behavior depending on the applied stress, are critical in industrial processes involving complex geometries such as porous media and wavy channels. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-25 Mohamed S. Abdelgawad , Simon J. Haward , Amy Q. Shen , Marco E. Rosti

The combined effect of viscosity and vorticity on the growth rate of the bubble associated with single mode Rayleigh -Taylor instability is investigated. It is shown that the effect of viscosity on the motion of the lighter fluid associated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Rahul Banerjee , Labakanta Mandal , S. Roy , M. Khan , M. R. Gupta

We have derived and solved numerically the Boltzmann-Vlasov transport equations that includes both two-body collisions and the chiral phase transition by mean of NJL-field dynamics. The scope is to understand if the field dynamics supply…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Plumari , V. Baran , M. Di Toro , G. Ferini , V. Greco

The combined effect of fluid elasticity and yield-stress on the flow past a circular cylinder is studied by two-dimensional direct numerical simulation. We analyze the effects of yield-stress, elasticity, shear-thinning, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-17 S. Parvar , K. T. Iqbal , M. N. Ardekani , L. Brandt , O. Tammisola

Bulk flow velocities are typically estimated in the idealised picture where observers are moving within a perfectly homogeneous and isotropic space-time. This picture is consistent within standard perturbation theory up to relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Asta Heinesen

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 discuss how the different estimates of elliptic flow are influenced by flow fluctuations and nonflow effects. It is explained why the event-plane method yields estimates between the two-particle correlation methods and the multiparticle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-08-18 Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer , Sergei A. Voloshin

The eddy viscosity for a turbulent compressible fluid with a relativistic equation of state is derived. Compressibility allows for sound modes, but the eddy viscosity in the shear mode is found to be the same as for incompressible fluids.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-14 Paul Romatschke

We show from covariant transport theory that, for a massless ideal gas equation of state, even a small shear viscosity to entropy density ratio $\eta \approx s/(4 \pi)$ generates significant 15-30% dissipative corrections to elliptic flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-06-03 Denes Molnar

The effects of initial state fluctuations on elliptic flow are investigated within a (3+1)d Boltzmann + hydrodynamics transport approach. The spatial eccentricity ($\epsilon_{\rm RP}$ and $\epsilon_{\rm part}$) is calculated for initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-28 Hannah Petersen , Marcus Bleicher

We study the relation between elliptic flow, $v_2$ and the initial eccentricity, $\varepsilon_2$, in heavy-ion collisions, using hydrodynamic simulations. Significant deviations from linear eccentricity scaling are seen in more peripheral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Li Yan , Fernando G. Gardim , Jean-Yves Ollitrault