Living Reviews in Relativity

"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
A The Volume Tensor
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