Relativistic causal hydrodynamics derived from Boltzmann equation: A novel reduction theoretical approach

2015/06/30 by Kyosuke Tsumura, Yuta Kikuchi, Teiji Kunihiro · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Ansatz #Boltzmann equation #Classical mechanics #Convection–diffusion equation #Distribution function #Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Mechanics #Operator (biology) #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #hep-ph #nucl-th #physics.flu-dyn

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.92.085048

published as Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) 085048 · 25 pages, 1 figure. Detailed calculation of the relaxation equation is added

openalex publication_date 2015/10/29 · arxiv created 2015/12/16 · arxiv updated 2016/02/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We derive the second-order hydrodynamic equation and the microscopic formulas of the relaxation times as well as the transport coefficients systematically from the relativistic Boltzmann equation. Our derivation is based on a novel development of the renormalization-group method, a powerful reduction theory of dynamical systems, which has been applied successfully to derive the nonrelativistic second-order hydrodynamic equation. Our theory nicely gives a compact expression of the deviation of the distribution function in terms of the linearized collision operator, which is different from those used as an ansatz in the conventional fourteen-moment method. It is confirmed that the resultant microscopic expressions of the transport coefficients coincide with those derived in the Chapman-Enskog expansion method. Furthermore, we show that the microscopic expressions of the relaxation times have natural and physically plausible forms. We prove that the propagating velocities of the fluctuations of the hydrodynamical variables do not exceed the light velocity, and hence our second-order equation ensures the desired causality. It is also confirmed that the equilibrium state is stable for any perturbation described by our equation.

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