"Relativistic Fluid Dynamics:
Physics for Many Different Scales"
by
Nils Andersson and Gregory L. Comer
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Abstract
1
Introduction
2
Physics in a Curved Spacetime
3
The Stress-Energy-Momentum Tensor and the Einstein Equations
4
Why Are Fluids Useful Models?
5
A Primer on Thermodynamics and Equations of State
6
An Overview of the Perfect Fluid
7
Setting the Context: The Point Particle
8
The “Pull-back” Formalism for a Single Fluid
9
The Two-Constituent, Single Fluid
10
The “Pull-Back” Formalism for Two Fluids
11
Speeds of Sound
12
The Newtonian Limit and the Euler Equations
13
The CFS Instability
14
Modelling Dissipation
15
Heavy Ion Collisions
16
Superfluids and Broken Symmetries
17
Final Remarks
18
Acknowledgments
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The Volume Tensor
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