Relativistic perfect fluids in local thermal equilibrium

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2225-8zbMATH Open1381.83047arXiv1610.00519OpenAlexW2529273242MaRDI QIDQ1700331FDOQ1700331

Joan Josep Ferrando, Juan Antonio Sáez, Bartolomé Coll

Publication date: 5 March 2018

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Every evolution of a fluid is uniquely described by an energy tensor. But the converse is not true: an energy tensor may describe the evolution of different fluids. The problem of determining them is called here the {em inverse problem}. This problem may admit unphysical or non-deterministic solutions. This paper is devoted to solve the inverse problem for perfect energy tensors in the class of perfect fluids evolving in local thermal equilibrium (l.t.e.). The starting point is a previous result (Coll and Ferrando in J Math Phys 30: 2918-2922, 1989) showing that thermodynamic fluids evolving in l.t.e. admit a purely hydrodynamic characterization. This characterization allows solving this inverse problem in a very compact form. The paradigmatic case of perfect energy tensors representing the evolution of ideal gases is studied in detail and some applications and examples are outlined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00519

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamicsideal gasesenergy tensorsrelativistic perfect fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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