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In this contributed chapter, I review our current understanding of the applicability of hydrodynamics to modeling the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), focusing on the question of hydrodynamization/thermalization of the QGP and the anisotropic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-16 Michael Strickland

"Attractor" solutions for the pre-hydrodynamic, far-from-equilibrium, evolution of the matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions have emerged as crucial descriptors of the rapid hydrodynamization of quark-gluon plasma (QGP).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Rachel Steinhorst

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in explaining the collective behaviour of the QCD matter produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We briefly review the latest developments in the hydrodynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Amaresh Jaiswal , Victor Roy

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

The success of relativistic hydrodynamics as an essential part of the phenomenological description of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC has motivated a significant body of theoretical work concerning its fundamental aspects. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Wojciech Florkowski , Michal P. Heller , Michal Spalinski

We simulate the space-time dynamics of high-energy collisions based on a microscopic kinetic description in the conformal relaxation time approximation, in order to determine the range of applicability of an effective description in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-26 Victor E. Ambrus , S. Schlichting , C. Werthmann

In this article, we briefly review recent progress on hydrodynamic modeling and its implementations to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The related topics include: 1) initial state fluctuations, final state…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-03 Huichao Song

The far-from equilibrium dynamics of the pre-hydrodynamic quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy ion collisions can be characterized by distinct stages, during each of which the system loses some memory of its initial condition, until…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Rachel Steinhorst

Analytical solution of one dimensional hydrodynamical model is derived, where phase transition from the QGP state to the hadronic state is effectively taken into account. The single particle rapidity distribution of charged $\pi$ mesons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-14 Naomichi Suzuki

Recently formulated model of highly-anisotropic and strongly dissipative hydrodynamics is used in 3+1 dimensions to study behavior of matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We search for possible effects of the initial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-22 Radoslaw Ryblewski , Wojciech Florkowski

Our recently developed 2+1 (boost-invariant) hydrodynamic model has been presented and used to i) describe the soft hadronic data collected in the central region of the relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and ii) to make predictions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-02 Mikolaj Chojnacki

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

The matter created in relativistic heavy ion collisions is fairly well described by ideal hydrodynamics, and somewhat better described by viscous hydrodynamics. To this point, most viscous calculations have been two-dimensional, based on an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Joshua Vredevoogd , Scott Pratt

We present algorithms to solve relativistic hydrodynamics in 3+1--dimensional situations without apparent symmetry to simplify the solution. In simulations of heavy--ion collisions, these numerical schemes have to deal with the physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Dirk H. Rischke , Stefan Bernard , Joachim A. Maruhn

We study geometrical and dynamical properties of the so-called discrete Lorenz-like attractors, that can be observed in three-dimensional diffeomorphisms. We propose new phenomenological scenarios of their appearance in one parameter…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-07 Sergey Gonchenko , Alexander Gonchenko , Alexey Kazakov

In this contribution to the Quark Matter 2023 proceedings, we study the hydrodynamization process in heavy-ion collisions using QCD kinetic theory and introduce the new concept of limiting attractors. They are defined via an extrapolation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Boguslavski , Aleksi Kurkela , Tuomas Lappi , Florian Lindenbauer , Jarkko Peuron

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 paper deals with topical issues of modern mathematical theory of dynamical chaos and its applications. At present, it is customary to assume that dynamical chaos in finitedimensional smooth systems can exist in three different forms.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-12-13 S. V. Gonchenko , A. S. Gonchenko , A. O. Kazakov , A. D. Kozlov

The time evolution of the averaged energy momentum tensor as well as its variation with energy density are calculated in a far-from-equilibrium state of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory undergoing a Bjorken expansion. The calculation is carried…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Casey Cartwright , Matthias Kaminski , Marco Knipfer

The dynamics of a turbulent flow tend to occupy only a portion of the phase space at a statistically stationary regime. From a dynamical systems point of view, this portion is the attractor. The knowledge of the turbulent attractor is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-05 Luca Magri , Anh Khoa Doan