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Anisotropic flow and fluctuations are sensitive observables of the initial state effects in heavy ion collisions and are characterized by the medium properties and final state interactions. Using event-shape observables, one can constrain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Suraj Prasad , Aswathy Menon K R , Raghunath Sahoo , Neelkamal Mallick

The rapidity dependent directed flow of particles produced in a relativistic heavy ion collision can be generated in the hydrodynamic expansion of a tilted source. The asymmetry of the pressure leads to a build up of a directed flow of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Piotr Bozek

Radial flow, a key collective phenomenon in heavy-ion collisions, manifests itself through event-by-event fluctuations of transverse-momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) spectra. The $p_{\mathrm{T}}$-differential radial flow observable,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Somadutta Bhatta , Aman Dimri , Jiangyong Jia

We study how fluctuations in fluid dynamic fields can be dissipated or amplified within the characteristic spatio-temporal structure of a heavy ion collision. The initial conditions for a fluid dynamic evolution of heavy ion collisions may…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-08-20 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics is a common tool to describe the space-time evolution of the strongly interacting matter created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. For a proper comparison to experimental data,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-08 H. Niemi , G. S. Denicol , H. Holopainen , P. Huovinen

Within a (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model we compute anisotropic flow in small system collisions as performed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and measured by the STAR and PHENIX Collaborations. We emphasize the importance of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Sangwook Ryu , Bjoern Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao

We develop a framework for event-by-event ideal hydrodynamics to study the differential elliptic flow which is measured at different centralities in Au+Au collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Fluctuating initial energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 Hannu Holopainen , Harri Niemi , Kari J. Eskola

We propose that flow fluctuations have the same origin as transverse momentum fluctuations. The common source of these fluctuations is the spatially inhomogeneous initial state that drives hydrodynamic flow. Longitudinal correlations from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Sean Gavin , George Moschelli

The last decade has seen a strong increase of research into flows in fractured porous media, mainly related to subsurface processes, but also in materials science and biological applications. Connected fractures totally dominate…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Inga Berre , Florian Doster , Eirik Keilegavlen

Hydrodynamic fluctuations in simple fluids under shear flow are demonstrated to be spatially correlated, in contrast to the fluctuations at equilibrium, using mesoscopic hydrodynamic simulations. The simulation results for the equal-time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Anoop Varghese , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

We study the observable $v_0(p_T)$, which quantifies the relative change of $p_T$ spectra induced by event-by-event density fluctuations in the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. This quantity provides a direct measure of radial flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Tribhuban Parida , Rupam Samanta , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

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

In this lecture note, we present several topics on relativistic hydrodynamics and its application to relativistic heavy ion collisions. In the first part we give a brief introduction to relativistic hydrodynamics in the context of heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Tetsufumi Hirano , Naomi van der Kolk , Ante Bilandzic

Fluid dynamical models preceded the first heavy ion accelerator experiments, and led to the main trend of this research since then. In recent years fluid dynamical processes became a dominant direction of research in high energy heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 L. P. Csernai , H. Stoecker

We discuss how the different estimates of elliptic flow are influenced by flow fluctuations and nonflow effects. It is explained why the event-plane method yields estimates between the two-particle correlation methods and the multiparticle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-08-18 Jean-Yves Ollitrault , Arthur M. Poskanzer , Sergei A. Voloshin

The internal behaviour of debris flows provides fundamental insight into the mechanics responsible for their motion. We provide velocity data within a small-scale experimental debris flow, consisting of the instantaneous release of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-26 Caitlin M. Chalk , Jeffrey Peakall , Gareth Keevil , Raul Fuentes

In this study, we use the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) to explore factorization and event-plane correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our analyses incorporate both numerical simulations and publicly available data from…

A method is proposed to measure the relative azimuthal angle distributions involving two or more event planes of different order in heavy ion collisions using a Fourier analysis technique. The analysis procedure is demonstrated for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-31 Jiangyong Jia , Soumya Mohapatra

Fluid dynamic approach is a workhorse for modelling collective dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The approach has been successful in describing various features of the momentum distributions of hadrons produced in the heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Iurii Karpenko

A comparison is made between results obtained using smooth initial conditions and event-by-event initial conditions in the hydrodynamical description of relativistic nuclear collisions. Some new results on directed flow are also included.