Relativistic hydrodynamics for heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper introduces relativistic hydrodynamics, detailing its equations and evolution in heavy-ion collisions, aimed at graduate students to understand nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies.

Contribution

It provides a detailed derivation of relativistic hydrodynamics equations and describes their application to heavy-ion collision evolution, serving as an educational resource.

Findings

Derivation of relativistic hydrodynamics equations

Description of hydrodynamical evolution in heavy-ion collisions

Educational overview for graduate students

Abstract

Relativistic hydrodynamics is essential to our current understanding of nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultrarelativistic energies (current experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, forthcoming experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider). This is an introduction to relativistic hydrodynamics for graduate students. It includes a detailed derivation of the equations, and a description of the hydrodynamical evolution of a heavy-ion collisions. Some knowledge of thermodynamics and special relativity is assumed.