Fluid Turbulence and Eddy Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

DOI10.1143/PTPS.174.137zbMATH Open1157.81347arXiv0710.0016MaRDI QIDQ3603985FDOQ3603985

Authors: Paul Romatschke 

Publication date: 24 February 2009

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The eddy viscosity for a turbulent compressible fluid with a relativistic equation of state is derived. Compressibility allows for sound modes, but the eddy viscosity in the shear mode is found to be the same as for incompressible fluids. For two space dimensions (which is the relevant case for the dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions) the eddy viscosity in the shear mode is negative, reducing the effective viscosity below its microscopic value. This could explain the tiny viscosity found at RHIC. Implications for the experimentally accessible elliptic flow coefficient at the LHC are speculated on.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0016

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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