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We numerically simulate gravitational shock wave collisions in a holographic model dual to a non-conformal four-dimensional gauge theory. We find two novel effects associated to the non-zero bulk viscosity of the resulting plasma. First,…

I review recent developments in the phenomenological study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) transport properties based on a personal selection of results that were presented at Quark Matter 2019. The constraints on the temperature dependence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Chun Shen

We extend the well-studied midrapidity TRENTo initial-conditions model to three dimensions, thus facilitating (3+1)D modeling and analysis of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. TRENTo-3D is a fast, parametric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Derek Soeder , Weiyao Ke , J. -F. Paquet , Steffen A. Bass

We present a new family of relativistic lattice kinetic schemes for the efficient simulation of relativistic flows in both strongly-interacting (fluid) and weakly-interacting (rarefied gas) regimes. The method can also deal with both…

The framework of anisotropic hydrodynamics is generalized to include finite particle masses. Two schemes are introduced and their predictions compared with exact solutions of the kinetic equation in the relaxation time approximation. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-22 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland , Leonardo Tinti

A formalism for anisotropic fluid dynamics is proposed. It is designed to describe boost-invariant systems with anisotropic pressure. Such systems are expected to be produced at the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, when…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wojciech Florkowski

A major limitation of the weakly compressible approaches to simulate incompressible flows is the appearance of artificial acoustic waves that introduce a large mass conservation error and lead to spurious oscillations in the force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-12 Dheeraj Raghunathan , Y. Sudhakar

We show that in hydrodynamic simulations for relativistic heavy-ion collisions, strong resonance decay calculations can be performed with fewer species of particle resonances while preserving good accuracy in single particle spectra and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Zhi Qiu , Chun Shen , Ulrich W. Heinz

In high energy collisions of heavy-ions, experimental findings of collective flow are customarily associated with the presence of a thermalized medium expanding according to the laws of hydrodynamics. Recently, the ATLAS, CMS and ALICE…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 M. Habich , G. A. Miller , P. Romatschke , W. Xiang

We present a technique to represent anisotropic heavy-quark potentials as effective potentials. This involves employing an effective screening mass linked to the quantum numbers $l$ and $m$ of a specific state. Our approach utilizes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-13 Ajaharul Islam

Relativistic heavy ion collisions generate nuclear-sized droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that exhibit nearly inviscid hydrodynamic expansion. Smaller collision systems such as p+Au, d+Au, and $^{3}$He+Au at the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 M. Byres , S. H. Lim , C. McGinn , J. Ouellette , J. L. Nagle

An effective computer program for three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamical model has been developed. It implements a new approach to the early hot phase of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The computer program simulates time-space…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Kikola , Wiktor Peryt , Yuri M. Sinyukov , Marcin Slodkowski , Marek Szuba

We derive hydrodynamic-like equations that are applicable to short-time scale color phenomena in the quark-gluon plasma. The equations are solved in the linear response approximation, and the gluon polarization tensor is derived. As an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristina Manuel , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

In this talk we will discuss the recent advances in describing heavy-quark dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which evolves hydrodynamically. Special emphasis is put on the collective flow of the heavy-quarks with the medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-11 Marlene Nahrgang , Joerg Aichelin , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

In recent years, there has been a significant effort to extract the temperature-dependent shear ($\eta/s$) and bulk ($\zeta/s$) viscosity over entropy ratios of the quark-gluon plasma from a global comparison of heavy-ion data with results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Fernando G. Gardim , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Anisotropic hydrodynamics is a reorganization of the relativistic hydrodynamics expansion, with the leading order already containing substantial momentum-space anisotropies. The latter are a cause of concern in the traditional viscous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Leonardo Tinti

The contribution presents a summary of the Gauge/Gravity approach to the study of hydrodynamic flow of the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. Considering the ideal case of a supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-24 Michal P. Heller , Romuald A. Janik , R. Peschanski

In this work we describe the dynamics of a highly anisotropic system undergoing boost-invariant longitudinal and azimuthally symmetric radial expansion (Gubser flow) for arbitrary shear viscosity to entropy density ratio. We derive the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Martinez , M. McNelis , U. Heinz

Hydrodynamic cloaking offers a promising approach for manipulating viscous flows by redirecting fluid around an obstacle without inducing external disturbances. By extending pseudo-conformal mappings into potential flow models, we introduce…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-21 Gaole Dai , Yuhong Zhou , Jun Wang , Zhuo Li , Jinrong Liu , Fubao Yang , Jiping Huang

We present ECHO-QGP, a numerical code for $(3+1)$-dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamics designed for the modeling of the space-time evolution of the matter created in high energy nuclear collisions. The code has been built on top…