Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions

Jan, 2013
27 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 28 (2013) 1340011
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Abstract: (WSP)
We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We discuss how hydrodynamics can be used to extract information on fundamental properties of quantum chromodynamics from experimental data, and review successes and challenges of the hydrodynamic framework.
Note:
  • 27 pages, 7 figures, invited review for a special issue of International Journal of Modern Physics A
  • 25.75.-q
  • 12.38.Mh
  • 25.75.Gz
  • 25.75.Ld
  • Heavy-ion collisions
  • relativistic fluid dynamics
  • hydrodynamics: viscosity
  • initial state: fluctuation
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • review