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We consider models of relativistic matter containing sharp interfaces across which the matter model changes. These models will be relevant for neutron stars with crusts, phase transitions, or for viscous boundaries where the length scale is…

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We investigate whether hydrodynamic attractors are present in simulations of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. We argue that Lagrangian schemes to solve the relativistic viscous fluid equations can be particularly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

The relativistic hydrodynamic model is applied to describe the expansion of the dense matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The hydrodynamic expansion of the fluid, supplemented with the statistical emission of hadrons at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-27 Piotr Bozek

We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-13 Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Within the relaxation time approximation under a constant mass profile, we investigate the collective dynamics of a system of massive relativistic particles described by the Maxwell-Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. We analytically derive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Ali Hataei , Roya Heydari , Farid Taghinavaz

The lecture is a brief review of the following topics: (i) collective flow phenomena in heavy ion collisions. The data from RHIC indicate robust collective flows, well described by hydrodynamics with expected Equation of State. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Edward Shuryak

The strongly interacting Quark-Gluon-Plasma (sQGP) created in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, can be described by hydrodynamic models. Low energy hadrons are created after the so called freeze-out of this medium, thus their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 M. Csanad

We give a short review of hydrodynamic models at heavy ion collisions from the point of view of initial conditions, an equation of states (EoS) and freezeout process. Then we show our latest results of a combined fully three-dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiho Nonaka

In this paper we present a full general relativistic one-dimensional hydro-code which incorporates a modern high-resolution shock-capturing algorithm, with an approximate Riemann solver, for the correct modelling of formation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jose V. Romero , Jose M. Ibanez , Jose M. Marti , Juan A. Miralles

Hydrodynamics provides a concise but powerful description of long-time and long-distance physics of correlated systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Here we construct hydrodynamic equations for nonrelativistic particles with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-27 Keisuke Fujii , Yusuke Nishida

We study the radial distribution of pressure, density, temperature and flow velocity fields at different times in a two dimensional hard sphere gas that is initially at rest and disturbed by injecting kinetic energy in a localized region…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-09 Jilmy P. Joy , R. Rajesh

The continuous injection of energy in a stationary gas creates a shock wave that propagates radially outwards. We study the hydrodynamics of this disturbance using event driven molecular dynamics of a hard sphere gas in two and three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-07 Amit Kumar , R. Rajesh

Spin polarization and spin transport are common phenomena in many quantum systems. Relativistic spin hydrodynamics provides an effective low-energy framework to describe these processes in quantum many-body systems. The fundamental symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Xu-Guang Huang

The relativistic diffusion process of heavy quarks is formulated on the basis of the relativistic Langevin equation in It\^{o} discretization scheme. The drag force inside the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is parametrized according to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-03 Yukinao Akamatsu , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tetsufumi Hirano

We study the formation and the dynamics of a shock wave originating from the collision between two ultracold clouds of strongly interacting fermions as observed at a lower temperature in an experiment by Joseph et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-26 S. Chiacchiera , D. Davesne , M. Urban

The early phase of the hydrodynamic evolution following collision of two stars is analyzed. Two strong shocks propagate at a constant velocity (which is a small fraction of the velocity of the approaching stars) from the contact surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Doron Kushnir , Boaz Katz

Starting from coupled fluid-kinetic equations for the modeling of laden flows, we derive relevant viscous corrections to be added to asymptotic hydrodynamic systems, by means of Chapman-Enskog expansions and analyse the shock profile…

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In cosmological first-order phase transitions, gravitational waves are generated by the collisions of bubble walls and by the bulk motions caused in the fluid. A sizeable signal may result from fast-moving walls. In this work we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

This paper performs a semi-analytic study of relativistic blast waves in the context of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Although commonly used in a wide range of analytical and numerical studies, the equation of state (EOS) with a constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Z. Lucas Uhm

Emission in many astrophysical transients originates from a shocked fluid. A central engine typically produces an outflow with varying speeds, leading to internal collisions within the outflow at finite distances from the source. Each such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Jonathan Granot , Paz Beniamini