Bulk viscosity and cavitation in boost-invariant hydrodynamic expansion

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2010)018zbMATH Open1271.81181arXiv0908.1785OpenAlexW2058388693MaRDI QIDQ365065FDOQ365065

Authors: Krishna Rajagopal, Nilesh Tripuraneni 

Publication date: 3 September 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We solve second order relativistic hydrodynamics equations for a boost-invariant 1+1-dimensional expanding fluid with an equation of state taken from lattice calculations of the thermodynamics of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. We investigate the dependence of the energy density as a function of proper time on the values of the shear viscosity, the bulk viscosity, and second order coefficients, confirming that large changes in the values of the latter have negligible effects. Varying the shear viscosity between zero and a few times s/(4 pi), with s the entropy density, has significant effects, as expected based on other studies. Introducing a nonzero bulk viscosity also has significant effects. In fact, if the bulk viscosity peaks near the crossover temperature Tc to the degree indicated by recent lattice calculations in QCD without quarks, it can make the fluid cavitate -- falling apart into droplets. It is interesting to see a hydrodynamic calculation predicting its own breakdown, via cavitation, at the temperatures where hadronization is thought to occur in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1785

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zbMATH Keywords

QCDhadronic colliders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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• Bulk and shear viscosity in Hagedorn fluid
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• Thermal photons in QGP and non-ideal effects
• Complex potential and bottomonium suppression at LHC energy
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• Thermodynamics and instabilities of a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
• Anisotropic fluid dynamical simulations of heavy-ion collisions
• An elementary stringy estimate of transport coefficients of large temperature QCD

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