Relativistic hydrodynamics for heavy-ion collisions

Understand

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.