Anisotropic Hydrodynamics: Motivation and Methodology
Abstract
In this proceedings contribution I review recent progress in our understanding of the bulk dynamics of relativistic systems that possess potentially large local rest frame momentum-space anisotropies. In order to deal with these momentum-space anisotropies, a reorganization of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics can been made around an anisotropic background, and the resulting dynamical framework has been dubbed "anisotropic hydrodynamics." I also discuss expectations for the degree of momentum-space anisotropy of the quark gluon plasma generated in relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC from second-order viscous hydrodynamics, strong-coupling approaches, and weak-coupling approaches.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.1188,
title = {Anisotropic Hydrodynamics: Motivation and Methodology},
author = {Michael Strickland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.1188},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures; Plenary contribution to the International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions 2013 (IS2013)