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Analytical solutions to the microscopic Boltzmann equation are useful in testing the applicability and accuracy of macroscopic hydrodynamic theory. In this work, we present exact solutions of the relativistic Boltzmann equation, based on a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

Standard textbooks will state that hydrodynamics requires near-equilibrium to be applicable. Recently, however, out-of-equilibrium attractor solutions for hydrodynamics have been found in kinetic theory and holography in systems with a high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Paul Romatschke

We study the universal behavior associated with a Relativistic Boltzmann Transport (RBT) approach with the full collision integral in 0+1D conformal systems. We show that all momentum moments of the distribution function exhibit universal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-21 Vincenzo Nugara , Salvatore Plumari , Lucia Oliva , Vincenzo Greco

We study the evolution of the one particle distribution function that solves exactly the relativistic Boltzmann equation within the relaxation time approximation for a conformal system undergoing simultaneously azimuthally symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-07 Ulrich W. Heinz , Mauricio Martinez

Understanding how hydrodynamics emerges rapidly in the medium produced by relativistic heavy-ion collisions remains a key theoretical challenge. While the attractor solution -- manifesting as a non-thermal fixed point during the early…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-12 Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

We derive the second-order hydrodynamic equation and the microscopic formulae of the relaxation times as well as the transport coefficients systematically from the relativistic Boltzmann equation. Our derivation is based on a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-01 Kyosuke Tsumura , Yuta Kikuchi , Teiji Kunihiro

We report on the existence of a hydrodynamic attractor in the Mueller-Israel-Stewart framework of a fluid living in the novel geometry discovered recently by Grozdanov. This geometry, corresponding to a hyperbolic slicing of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Alexander Soloviev

I summarize our recent work towards finding and utilizing analytic solutions of relativistic hydrodynamic. In the first part I discuss various exact solutions of the second-order conformal hydrodynamics. In the second part I compute flow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Yoshitaka Hatta

We present the perturbative solution of the multicomponent Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the set of observables including the hydrodynamic velocity and temperature for each component. The solution is obtained by modifying the formal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-23 S. V. Savenko , E. A. J. F. Peters , P. J. A. M. Kerkhof

We investigate the impact of momentum-dependent relaxation time approximation in the Boltzmann equation within the Bjorken flow framework by analyzing the moments of the single-particle distribution function. The moment equations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

The observation of fluid-like behavior in nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions motivates systematic studies of how different measurements approach their fluid-dynamic limit. We have developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Aleksi Kurkela , Seyed Farid Taghavi , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Bin Wu

The introduced earlier projection method for boost-invariant and cylindrically symmetric systems is used to introduce a new formulation of anisotropic hydrodynamics that allows for three substantially different values of pressure acting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-19 Leonardo Tinti , Wojciech Florkowski

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

We use the extended relaxation time approximation for the collision kernel, which incorporates a particle-energy dependent relaxation time, to derive second-order viscous hydrodynamics from the Boltzmann equation for a system of massless…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Dipika Dash , Sunil Jaiswal , Samapan Bhadury , Amaresh Jaiswal

The quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions is not in local thermal equilibrium at early times. Despite this, dissipative hydrodynamics describes the evolution of the energy-momentum tensor quite well after only roughly 0.5 - 1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Michael Strickland

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

Exact solutions to the equations of hydrodynamics provide valuable benchmark tests for numerical hydrodynamic codes and also provide useful insights into the nature of hydrodynamic flow. In this paper, we introduce two novel, closely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Owen Bradley , Christopher Plumberg

A novel description of kinetic theory dynamics is proposed in terms of resummed moments that embed information of both hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic modes. The resulting expansion can be used to extend hydrodynamics to higher orders in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-16 L. Tinti , G. Vujanovic , J. Noronha , U. Heinz

We derive a linearly causal and stable third-order relativistic fluid-dynamical theory from the Boltzmann equation using the method of moments. For this purpose, we demonstrate that such theory must include novel degrees of freedom,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-21 Caio V. P. de Brito , Gabriel S. Denicol

Fluid dynamics is traditionally thought to apply only to systems near local equilibrium. In this case, the effective theory of fluid dynamics can be constructed as a gradient series. Recent applications of resurgence suggest that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Paul Romatschke