Holographic Hydrodynamics and Applications to RHIC and LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in holographic hydrodynamics, exploring its gravitational duals and applications to relativistic heavy ion collisions, including topics like anomalies, turbulence, and universal fluid structures.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent developments in holographic hydrodynamics, connecting gravitational descriptions with phenomena observed in heavy ion collision experiments.

Findings

Hydrodynamics can be described via gravitational duals in the fluid/gravity correspondence.

Chiral anomalies and effects are significant in holographic models of hydrodynamics.

Turbulence exhibits universal features in the holographic framework.

Abstract

We briefly review recent developments of hydrodynamics, its gravitational description and relevance to relativistic heavy ion collisions. We discuss the basics of hydrodynamics, the fluid/gravity correspondence, triangle anomalies and chiral effects, turbulence and its universal structure.