[NT/RBRC seminar] Hydrodynamic Frames: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

by Prof. Jorge Noronha (U. Illinois)

Friday 3 Dec 2021, 11:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1606085161?pwd=OVdtUzkzL0lJRHFqWXRTVld2MVZJQT09

Three of the most cutting-edge experiments in modern science, RHIC, LHC, and LIGO are now producing data whose description requires a major overhaul of our current understanding of what constitutes fluid dynamic behavior in the relativistic regime. In this talk I will explain how the choice of hydrodynamic variables in a system out of equilibrium, i.e., our definition of the so-called hydrodynamic frame, affects the domain of applicability of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics formulations. The choice of hydrodynamic frame is also shown to play an important role in chiral hydrodynamics even in the absence of dissipation. Finally, I will discuss how to consistently formulate stochastic relativistic hydrodynamics in a general hydrodynamic frame.