Relativistic Fluid Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium: And Applications to Relativistic Nuclear Collisions (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

"The past decade has seen unprecedented developments in the understanding of relativistic fluid dynamics in and out of equilibrium, with connections to astrophysics, cosmology, string theory, quantum information, nuclear physics and condensed matter physics. Romatschke & Romatschke offer a powerful new framework for fluid dynamics, exploring its connections to kinetic theory, gauge/gravity duality and thermal quantum field theory. Numerical algorithms to solve the equations of motion of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics as well as applications to various systems are discussed. In particular, the book contains a comprehensive review of the theory background necessary to apply fluid dynamics to simulate relativistic nuclear collisions, including comparisons of fluid simulation results to experimental data for relativistic lead-lead, proton-lead and proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The book is an excellent resource for students and researchers working in nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum many-body systems and string theory"-- Read more... The past decade has seen unprecedented developments in the understanding of relativistic fluid dynamics in and out of equilibrium, with connections to astrophysics, cosmology, string theory, quantum information, nuclear physics and condensed matter physics. Romatschke and Romatschke offer a powerful new framework for fluid dynamics, exploring its connections to kinetic theory, gauge/gravity duality and thermal quantum field theory. Numerical algorithms to solve the equations of motion of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics as well as applications to various systems are discussed. In particular, the book contains a comprehensive review of the theory background necessary to apply fluid dynamics to simulate relativistic nuclear collisions, including comparisons of fluid simulation results to experimental data for relativistic lead-lead, proton-lead and proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The book is an excellent resource for students and researchers working in nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum many-body systems and string theory. "The past decade has seen unprecedented developments in the understanding of relativistic fluid dynamics in and out of equilibrium, with connections to astrophysics, cosmology, string theory, quantum information, nuclear physics and condensed matter physics. Romatschke & Romatschke offer a powerful new framework for fluid dynamics, exploring its connections to kinetic theory, gauge/gravity duality and thermal quantum field theory. Numerical algorithms to solve the equations of motion of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics as well as applications to various systems are discussed. In particular, the book contains a comprehensive review of the theory background necessary to apply fluid dynamics to simulate relativistic nuclear collisions, including comparisons of fluid simulation results to experimental data for relativistic lead-lead, proton-lead and proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The book is an excellent resource for students and researchers working in nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum many-body systems and string theory"-- Provided by publisher Contents 7 Preface 9 1 Outline, Notation, Preliminaries 11 2 Modern Theory of Fluid Dynamics 18 3 Microscopic Theory Background 69 4 Simulating Relativistic Nuclear Collisions 106 5 Comparison to Experimental Data 154 6 Conclusions 167 Appendix A Relativistic Velocities 172 Appendix B Riemann, Ricci, Christoffels, and All That 173 Appendix C Coordinate Systems Used 178 References 182 Index 204 Relativistic,Fluid,Dynamics,In,and,Out,of,Equilibrium Presents a powerful new framework for fluid dynamics away from equilibrium, providing an essential resource to researchers in nuclear physics, cosmology, astrophysics and quantum many-body systems. Contains a comprehensive theory overview, numerical algorithms as well as applications to neutron stars, the early universe and high energy collisions. Outline, notation, preliminaries -- Modern theory of fluid dynamics -- Microscopic theory background -- Simulating relativistic nuclear collisions -- Comparison to experimental data -- Summary and conclusions. Presents A Powerful New Framework For Out-of-equilibrium Hydrodynamics, With Connections To Kinetic Theory, Ads/cft And Applications To High-energy Particle Collisions.