Causal Viscous Hydrodynamics for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Understand

The viscosity of the QGP is a presently hotly debated subject.

• Since its computation from first principles is difficult, it is desirable to try to extract it from experimental data.
• Viscous hydrodynamics provides a tool that can attack this problem and which may work in regions where ideal hydrodynamics begins to fail.
• This thesis focuses on viscous hydrodynamics for relativistic heavy ion collisions.