On the stability problem in special relativistic thermodynamics: implications of the Chapman-Enskog formalism

DOI10.1007/S10955-015-1272-3MaRDI QIDQ513155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Mondragon-Suarez, D. Brun-Battistini, A. L. García-Perciante, Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3666

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic theoryspecial relativityChapman-Enskog methodconsistency in transport equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Special relativity (83A05) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: Extended theories are widely used in the literature to describe relativistic fluids. The motivation for this is mostly due to the causality issues allegedly present in the first order in the gradients theories. However, the decay of fluctuations in the system is also at stake when first order theories that couple heat with acceleration are used. This paper shows that although the introduction of the Maxwell-Cattaneo equation in the description of a simple relativistic fluid formally eliminates the generic instabilities identified by Hiscock and Lindblom in 1985, the hypothesis on the order of magnitude of the corresponding relaxation term contradicts the basic ordering in Knudsen's parameter present in the kinetic approach to hydrodynamics. It is shown that the time derivative, stabilizing term is of second order in such parameter and thus does not belong to the Navier-Stokes regime where the so-called instability arises.

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