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Multicomponent relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation

Nuclear Theory 2022-08-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We derive multicomponent relativistic second-order dissipative fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equations for a reactive mixture of NspecN_{\text{spec}} particle species with NqN_q intrinsic quantum numbers (e.g. electric charge, baryon number, and strangeness) using the method of moments. We obtain the continuity equations for multiple conserved charges as well as the conservation equations for the total energy and momentum in the single-fluid approximation. These 4+Nq4+N_q conservation laws are closed by deriving the second-order equations of motion for the dissipative quantities in the (10+4Nq)(10+4N_q)-moment approximation. The resulting fluid-dynamical equations are formally similar to those of a single-component system, but feature different thermodynamic relations and transport coefficients. We derive general relations for all transport coefficients and compute them explicitly in the ultrarelativistic limit.

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@article{arxiv.2203.11549,
  title  = {Multicomponent relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation},
  author = {Jan A. Fotakis and Etele Molnár and Harri Niemi and Carsten Greiner and Dirk H. Rischke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11549},
  year   = {2022}
}

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