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Exploring the applicability of dissipative fluid dynamics to small systems by comparison to the Boltzmann equation
2018
[Background] Experimental data from heavy-ion experiments at RHIC-BNL and LHC-CERN are quantitatively described using relativistic fluid dynamics. Even p+A and p+p collisions show signs of collective behavior describable in the same manner. Nevertheless, small system sizes and large gradients strain the limits of applicability of fluid-dynamical methods. [Purpose] The range of applicability of fluid dynamics for the description of the collective behavior, and in particular of the elliptic flow, of small systems needs to be explored. [Method] Results of relativistic fluid-dynamical simulations are compared with solutions of the Boltzmann equation in a longitudinally boost-invariant picture. …
Computing Strong Shocks in Ultrarelativistic Flows: A Robust Alternative
1999
In recent years, shock capturing methods have started to be used in numerical simulations in Relativistic Fluid Dynamics (RFD). These techniques lead to explicit numerical codes that are able to successfully simulate the extreme conditions of the ultrarelativistic regime. After [2], an explicit, ready-to-use description of the full spectral decomposition of the Jacobian matrices of the RFD system is available, and this allows us to implement Marquina’s scheme [3] in RFD. The scheme is seen to maintain the good behavior shown in [3] with respect to certain numerical pathologies.