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Viscous hydrodynamics is commonly used to model the evolution of the matter created in an ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision. It provides a good description of transverse momentum spectra and anisotropic flow. These observables,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-13 Salvatore Plumari , Giovanni Luca Guardo , Vincenzo Greco , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Elliptic flow in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions results from the hydrodynamic response to the spatial anisotropy of the initial density profile. A long-standing problem in the interpretation of flow data is that uncertainties in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-09 Li Yan , Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer

In this work, we study the charged hadron anisotropic flow coefficients $v_n$ (up to $n = 12$) using high-statistics event-by-event simulations of Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ and $5.36$~TeV, employing the IP-Glasma +…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Owen Horecny , Chun Shen

Hadron spectra and elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied in event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic simulations with fluctuating initial conditions given by the AMPT Monte Carlo model. Both the coherent soft gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Longgang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation framework for fluid-flow prediction is developed on the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) platform. The TPU architecture is featured with accelerated dense matrix multiplication, large high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Qing Wang , Matthias Ihme , Yi-Fan Chen , John Anderson

Elliptic flow, $v_2$, and triangular flow, $v_3$, are to a good approximation linearly proportional to the corresponding spatial anisotropies of the initial density profile, $\varepsilon_2$ and $\varepsilon_3$. Using event-by-event…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-25 Giuliano Giacalone , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Using numerical results from ideal and viscous relativistic hydrodynamic simulations with three different equations of state, for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at different centralities and initial energy densities, we explore the dependence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Huichao Song , Ulrich W. Heinz

Vortices, turbulence, and unsteady non-laminar flows are likely both prominent and dynamically important features of astrophysical disks. Such strongly nonlinear phenomena are often difficult, however, to simulate accurately, and are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Darryl Seligman , Gregory Laughlin

Measurements of anisotropic flow coefficients ($v_n$) and their cross-correlations using two- and multi-particle cumulant methods are reported in collisions of pp at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV, p-Pb at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = 5.02$ TeV, Xe-Xe at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-11-11 ALICE Collaboration

The cumulants of the distribution of anisotropic flow are measured accurately in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC as a function of centrality classifiers (charged multiplicity and/or transverse energy). Using Bayesian inference, we reconstruct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Enak Roubertie , Mathis Verdan , Andreas Kirchner , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

The LHC data on event-by-event harmonic flow coefficients measured in PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted within the HYDJET++ model. To compare the model results with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-29 L. V. Bravina , E. S. Fotina , V. L. Korotkikh , I. P. Lokhtin , L. V. Malinina , E. N. Nazarova , S. V. Petrushanko , A. M. Snigirev , E. E. Zabrodin

We have studied the space-time evolution of minimally viscous ($\frac{\eta}{s}$=0.08) QGP fluid, undergoing boost-invariant longitudinal motion and arbitrary transverse expansion. Relaxation equations for the shear stress tensor components,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-06-18 A. K. Chaudhuri

We report the first results of elliptic ($v_2$), triangular ($v_3$) and quadrangular flow ($v_4$) of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-12-13 ALICE Collaboration

Hydrodynamics is nowadays understood as an effective field theory that describes the dynamics of the long-wavelength and slow-time fluctuations of an underlying microscopic theory. In this work we extend the relativistic hydrodynamics to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-27 Saulo M. Diles , Luis A. H. Mamani , Alex S. Miranda , Vilson T. Zanchin

In many physical systems, degrees of freedom are coupled \emph{via} hydrodynamic forces, even in the absence of Hamiltonian interactions. A particularly important and widespread example concerns the transport of microscopic particles in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-11 Juliette Lacherez , Maxime Lavaud , Yacine Amarouchene , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

Higher-order anisotropic flows in heavy-ion collisions are affected by nonlinear mode coupling effects. It has been suggested that the associated nonlinear hydrodynamic response coefficients probe the transport properties and are largely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Jing Qian , Ulrich W. Heinz , Jia Liu

Hydrodynamics calculations have been successfully used in studies of the bulk properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, particularly of elliptic flow and shear viscosity. However, there are areas (for instance event-by-event simulations for…

We propose a method to separate \Delta\eta-dependent and \Delta\eta-independent azimuthal correlations using two- and four-particle cumulants between pseudo-rapidity (\eta) bins in symmetric heavy-ion collisions. The \Delta\eta-independent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-10-10 Lingshan Xu , Li Yi , Daniel Kikola , Joshua Konzer , Fuqiang Wang , Wei Xie

We demonstrate by explicit calculations in 3+1 dimensional viscous relativistic fluid dynamics how two-particle pseudorapidity correlation functions in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC depend on the number of particle producing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-02 Akihiko Monnai , Bjoern Schenke

The pseudorapidity behaviour of the azimuthal anisotropy parameters v_1 and v_2 of inclusive charged hadrons and their dependence on the centrality has been studied in Au+Au collisions at full RHIC energy of sqrt(s) = 200 GeV within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Burau , J. Bleibel , C. Fuchs , Amand Faessler , L. V. Bravina , E. E. Zabrodin