You are currently on the new version of our website. Access the old version .

71 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,164 Views
23 Pages

Field Theory Approaches to Relativistic Hydrodynamics

  • Nahuel Mirón Granese,
  • Alejandra Kandus and
  • Esteban Calzetta

7 December 2022

Just as non-relativistic fluids, oftentimes we find relativistic fluids in situations where random fluctuations cannot be ignored, with thermal and turbulent fluctuations being the most relevant examples. Because of the theory’s inherent nonlin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,070 Views
15 Pages

Resummed Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamics

  • Huda Alalawi,
  • Mubarak Alqahtani and
  • Michael Strickland

5 February 2022

In this review, we present the motivation for using relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics to study the physics of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We then highlight the main ingredients of the 3+1D quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,318 Views
9 Pages

14 December 2017

In ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions, the strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP) is created. The fluid nature of the sQGP was one of the important discoveries of high energy heavy ion physics in the last decades. Henceforth the expl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,434 Views
17 Pages

Machine Learning for Conservative-to-Primitive in Relativistic Hydrodynamics

  • Tobias Dieselhorst,
  • William Cook,
  • Sebastiano Bernuzzi and
  • David Radice

11 November 2021

The numerical solution of relativistic hydrodynamics equations in conservative form requires root-finding algorithms that invert the conservative-to-primitive variables map. These algorithms employ the equation of state of the fluid and can be comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
447 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Logarithmic Approach to General Relativistic Hydrodynamics in Dynamical Spacetimes

  • Mario Imbrogno,
  • Rita Megale,
  • Luca Del Zanna and
  • Sergio Servidio

18 June 2025

We introduce a novel logarithmic approach within the Baumgarte–Shapiro–Shibata–Nakamura (BSSN) formalism for self-consistently solving the equations of general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRHD) in evolving curved spacetimes. This me...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,963 Views
21 Pages

New Exact Solutions of Relativistic Hydrodynamics for Longitudinally Expanding Fireballs

  • Tamás Csörgő,
  • Gábor Kasza,
  • Máté Csanád and
  • Zefang Jiang

We present new, exact, finite solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics for longitudinally expanding fireballs for arbitrary constant value of the speed of sound. These new solutions generalize earlier, longitudinally finite, exact solutions, from an u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,264 Views
19 Pages

A New Parallel Code Based on a Simple Piecewise Parabolic Method for Numerical Modeling of Colliding Flows in Relativistic Hydrodynamics

  • Igor Kulikov,
  • Igor Chernykh,
  • Dmitry Karavaev,
  • Vladimir Prigarin,
  • Anna Sapetina,
  • Ivan Ulyanichev and
  • Oleg Zavyalov

30 May 2022

A new parallel code based on models of special relativistic hydrodynamics is presented for describing interacting flows. A new highly accurate numerical method is considered and verified. A parallel implementation of the method by means of Coarray Fo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,872 Views
36 Pages

Multifluid Modelling of Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics

  • Lorenzo Gavassino,
  • Marco Antonelli and
  • Brynmor Haskell

18 September 2020

The formulation of a universal theory for bulk viscosity and heat conduction represents a theoretical challenge for our understanding of relativistic fluid dynamics. Recently, it was shown that the multifluid variational approach championed by Carter...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,278 Views
16 Pages

New, Spherical Solutions of Non-Relativistic, Dissipative Hydrodynamics

  • Gábor Kasza,
  • László P. Csernai and
  • Tamás Csörgő

6 April 2022

We present a new family of exact solutions of dissipative fireball hydrodynamics for arbitrary bulk and shear viscosities. The main property of these solutions is a spherically symmetric, Hubble flow field. The motivation of this paper is mostly acad...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,423 Views
20 Pages

13 February 2023

In this work, we perform a phenomenological derivation of the first- and second-order relativistic hydrodynamics of dissipative fluids. To set the stage, we start with a review of the ideal relativistic hydrodynamics from energy–momentum and pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,555 Views
9 Pages

4 September 2019

The quark gluon plasma is formed in heavy-ion collisions, and it can be described by solutions of relativistic hydrodynamics. In this paper we utilize perturbative hydrodynamics, where we study first order perturbations on top of a known solution. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,033 Views
22 Pages

29 May 2025

A functional measure encompasses quantum corrections and is explored in the fluid/gravity correspondence. Corrections to the response and transport coefficients in the second-order dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics are proposed, including those...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,844 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2024

We propose a general procedure for evaluating, directly from microphysics, the constitutive relations of heat-conducting fluids in regimes of large fluxes of heat. Our choice of hydrodynamic formalism is Carter’s two-fluid theory, which happens...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,083 Views
6 Pages

Radiative Signatures of Parsec-Scale Magnetised Jets

  • Christian M. Fromm,
  • Oliver Porth,
  • Ziri Younsi,
  • Yosuke Mizuno,
  • Mariafelica De Laurentis,
  • Hector Olivares and
  • Luciano Rezzolla

6 November 2017

Relativistic jets are launched from the immediate vicinity of black holes and can reach kilo-parsec scales. During their evolution from the smallest to the largest scales, they encounter different physical conditions (e.g., ambient configurations and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,081 Views
18 Pages

In this paper we carry out a semi-analytic general relativistic study of a Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) jet that is breaking out of a cocoon or stellar envelope. We solve hydrodynamic equations with the relativistic equation of state that takes care of flu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,196 Views
15 Pages

Modeling the Dynamics of Heavy-Ion Collisions with a Hydrodynamic Model Using a Graphics Processor

  • Marcin Słodkowski,
  • Dominik Setniewski,
  • Paweł Aszklar and
  • Joanna Porter-Sobieraj

20 March 2021

Dense bulk matter is formed during heavy-ion collision and expands towards a vacuum. It behaves as a perfect fluid, described by relativistic hydrodynamics. In order to study initial condition fluctuation and properties of jet propagation in dense ho...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,599 Views
5 Pages

Simulations of Energy Losses in the Bulk Nuclear Medium Using Hydrodynamics on the Graphics Cards (GPU)

  • Marcin Słodkowski,
  • Patryk Gawryszewski,
  • Patryk Marcinkowski,
  • Dominik Setniewski and
  • Joanna Porter-Sobieraj

We are developing a software for energy loss simulation which is affected by jets in the nuclear matter described by relativistic hydrodynamics. Our program uses a Cartesian coordinate system in order to provide high spatial resolution for the analys...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,810 Views
11 Pages

16 March 2023

Light-nuclei production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is simulated within an updated Three-fluid Hydrodynamics-based Event Simulator Extended by UrQMD (Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics) final State interactions (THESEUS). The simu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,126 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2025

We present a novel machine learning (ML)-based method to accelerate conservative-to-primitive inversion, focusing on hybrid piecewise polytropic and tabulated equations of state. Traditional root-finding techniques are computationally expensive, part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,592 Views
24 Pages

31 October 2019

Two coupled, interpenetrating fluids suffer instabilities beyond certain critical counterflows. For ideal fluids, an energetic instability occurs at the point where a sound mode inverts its direction due to the counterflow, while dynamical instabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,930 Views
26 Pages

Hydrodynamic Impacts of Short Laser Pulses on Plasmas

  • Gaetano Fiore,
  • Monica De Angelis,
  • Renato Fedele,
  • Gabriele Guerriero and
  • Dušan Jovanović

27 July 2022

We determine conditions allowing for simplification of the description of the impact of a short and arbitrarily intense laser pulse onto a cold plasma at rest. If both the initial plasma density and pulse profile have plane symmetry, then suitable ma...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,805 Views
15 Pages

Hydrodynamic Simulations of a Relativistic Jet Interacting with the Intracluster Medium: Application to Cygnus A

  • John A. ZuHone,
  • Paul E. J. Nulsen,
  • Po-Hsun Tseng,
  • Hsi-Yu Schive and
  • Tom W. Jones

23 March 2023

The Fanaroff–Riley Class II radio galaxy Cygnus A hosts jets that produce radio emission, X-ray cavities, cocoon shocks, and X-ray hotspots, where the jet interacts with the ICM. Surrounding one hotspot is a peculiar “hole” feature,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,200 Views
25 Pages

30 October 2024

The propagation speeds of excitations are a crucial input in the modeling of interacting systems of particles. In this paper, we assume the microscopic physics is described by a kinetic theory for massless particles, which is approximated by a genera...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,214 Views
34 Pages

Thinking Outside the Box: Numerical Relativity with Particles

  • Stephan Rosswog,
  • Peter Diener and
  • Francesco Torsello

20 June 2022

The observation of gravitational waves from compact objects has now become an active part of observational astronomy. For a sound interpretation, one needs to compare such observations against detailed Numerical Relativity simulations, which are esse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,950 Views
13 Pages

6 January 2024

We show that the GENERIC model for relativistic heat conduction is a multifluid of Carter; this allows one to compute the multifluid constitutive relations directly from the GENERIC formalism. As a quick application, we prove that in the limit of inf...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,602 Views
4 Pages

Anisotropic Hydrodynamics for Au-Au Collisions at 200 GeV

  • Mubarak Alqahtani,
  • Dekrayat Almaalol and
  • Michael Strickland

In this proceedings, we review the basics of quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydroQP). Then we present phenomenological comparisons between 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics and experimental data from RHIC experiments at 200 GeV...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,671 Views
17 Pages

6 February 2023

We review recent studies of vortical motion and the resulting polarization of Λ hyperons in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies, in particular, within the model of three-fluid dynamics (3FD). This includes predictions of the global Λ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,666 Views
10 Pages

Chiral Effects in Hydrodynamics: New Trends

  • Valentin Zakharov,
  • Oleg Teryaev and
  • Georgy Prokhorov

By chiral effects, one understands the manifestations of chiral gauge anomaly and of gravitational chiral anomaly in hydrodynamics. In the last two to three years, our understanding of chiral effects has considerably changed. Here, we present a mini-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
4,404 Views
11 Pages

Reworking Zubarev’s Approach to Nonequilibrium Quantum Statistical Mechanics

  • Francesco Becattini,
  • Matteo Buzzegoli and
  • Eduardo Grossi

8 April 2019

In this work, the nonequilibrium density operator approach introduced by Zubarev more than 50 years ago to describe quantum systems at a local thermodynamic equilibrium is revisited. This method, which was used to obtain the first “Kubo”...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,683 Views
31 Pages

22 January 2019

Numerical simulations have been playing a crucial role in the understanding of jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) since the advent of the first theoretical models for the inflation of giant double radio galaxies by continuous injection in the lat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
12 Pages

Mathematical Formulation of Causal Propagation in Relativistic Ideal Fluids

  • Dominique Brun-Battistini,
  • Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo and
  • Hernando Efrain Caicedo-Ortiz

1 August 2025

We establish a rigorous kinetic-theoretical framework to analyze causal propagation in thermal transport phenomena within relativistic ideal fluids, building a more rigorous framework based on the kinetic theory of gases. Specifically, we provide a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,670 Views
15 Pages

Initial Energy Density of √s = 7 and 8 TeV p–p Collisions at the LHC

  • Máté Csanád,
  • Tamás Csörgő,
  • Ze-Fang Jiang and
  • Chun-Bin Yang

11 February 2017

Results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Colloder (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments show that in relativistic heavy ion collisions, a new state of matter, a strongly interacting perfect fluid, is created. Accelerating, exact and e...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,477 Views
27 Pages

23 August 2017

Till now, kinetic theory and statistical mechanics of either free or interacting point particles were well defined only in non-relativistic inertial frames in the absence of the long-range inertial forces present in accelerated frames. As shown in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,409 Views
4 Pages

Knots in Relativistic Transverse Stratified Jets

  • Zakaria Meliani and
  • Olivier Hervet

5 September 2017

We investigate the plasmoid knot formation in stratified relativistic jet by means of relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics simulations. Indeed, astrophysical jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) seem to be transversely stratified, with a fast inner jet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,186 Views
35 Pages

29 January 2021

We present a geometrical derivation of the relativistic dynamics of the superfluid inner crust of a neutron star. The resulting model is analogous to the Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov hydrodynamics for a single-component superfluid at finite temp...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,629 Views
5 Pages

We present a model of the dynamical evolution of relativistic heavy ion collisions, which combines second-order viscous hydrodynamics and microscopic transport. In particular, we present a hybrid approach with MUSIC hydrodynamics, and SMASH (Simulati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,970 Views
7 Pages

Hydrodynamical Simulations of Recollimation Shocks within Relativistic Astrophysical Jets

  • Christopher D. Kaye,
  • Timothy V. Cawthorne and
  • Philip A. Hughes

Astrophysical jets launched from active galactic nuclei can remain tightly collimated over large distances due, in part, to recollimation shocks. Formed within the jets due to their supersonic nature, recollimation shocks are predicted to leave signa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,668 Views
18 Pages

26 July 2022

In this short review, we focus on some of the subjects, related to J. Cleymans’ pioneering contribution of statistical approaches to the particle production process in heavy-ion collisions. We discuss these perspectives from the effects of stoc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,718 Views
63 Pages

New Developments in Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics

  • Koichi Hattori,
  • Masaru Hongo and
  • Xu-Guang Huang

5 September 2022

Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark–gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernova, compact star...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,702 Views
13 Pages

Neutron Star Mergers: Probing the EoS of Hot, Dense Matter by Gravitational Waves

  • Matthias Hanauske,
  • Jan Steinheimer,
  • Anton Motornenko,
  • Volodymyr Vovchenko,
  • Luke Bovard,
  • Elias R. Most,
  • L. Jens Papenfort,
  • Stefan Schramm and
  • Horst Stöcker

2 January 2019

Gravitational waves, electromagnetic radiation, and the emission of high energy particles probe the phase structure of the equation of state of dense matter produced at the crossroad of the closely related relativistic collisions of heavy ions and of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,913 Views
10 Pages

17 January 2024

From a recently found family of analytic, finite and accelerating 1+1-dimensional solutions to perfect fluid relativistic hydrodynamics, we derive simple and powerful formulae to describe the rapidity and pseudorapidity density distributions. By intr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,679 Views
14 Pages

Generation of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillations in Charged-Particle Beam by Crossed Magnetic Fields

  • Alexander R. Karimov,
  • Grigoriy O. Buyanov,
  • Alexander E. Shikanov and
  • Konstantin I. Kozlovskij

Based on the cold-fluid hydrodynamic description, the interaction of a non-relativistic charged-particle beam with crossed magnetic fields is studied. This process results in the transfer of energy/momentum from the field to the beam, which, in turn,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,936 Views
43 Pages

9 November 2023

Microquasar stellar systems emit electromagnetic radiation and high-energy particles. Thanks to their location within our own galaxy, they can be observed in high detail. Still, many of their inner workings remain elusive; hence, simulations, as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,816 Views
7 Pages

Based on the analytical solution of accelerating relativistic viscous fluid hydrodynamics and Buda–Lund model, the pseudorapidity distributions of the most central Pb+Pb and Xe+Xe collisions are presented. Inspired by the CNC model, a modified...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,633 Views
55 Pages

5 September 2024

In this paper, we review and compare the stochastic quantum mechanics of Nelson and the scale relativity theory of Nottale. We consider both nonrelativistic and relativistic frameworks and include the electromagnetic field. These theories propose a d...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,834 Views
10 Pages

Influence of Spatial and Dynamical Anisotropies on Flow and Femtoscopy Radii in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at LHC Energies

  • E. E. Zabrodin,
  • L. V. Bravina,
  • I. P. Lokhtin,
  • L. V. Malinina,
  • S. V. Petrushanko and
  • A. M. Snigirev

We study the influence of spatial and dynamical anisotropies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions on the differential elliptic and triangular flows of charged hadrons and, simultaneously, on the second- and third-order oscillations of the femtoscopic...

of 2