un 2 00 8 Causal relativistic hydrodynamics for viscous fluids ‡
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We report on recent results from VISH2+1, a code that solves the relativistic Israel-Stewart equations for causal viscous hydrodynamics for heavyion collisions with longitudinal boost invariance. We find that even “minimal” shear viscosity η/s = ~/(4π) leads to a large reduction of elliptic flow compared to ideal fluid dynamics. We explore systematically the sensitivity of this reduction to the equation of state, system size, initial conditions, and the microscopic relaxation time in different formulations of the Israel-Stewart equations.
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J un 2 00 8 Causal relativistic hydrodynamics for viscous fluids ‡
We report on recent results from VISH2+1, a code that solves the relativistic Israel-Stewart equations for causal viscous hydrodynamics for heavyion collisions with longitudinal boost invariance. We find that even “minimal” shear viscosity η/s = ~/(4π) leads to a large reduction of elliptic flow compared to ideal fluid dynamics. We explore systematically the sensitivity of this reduction to the...
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