Speaker
Mr
Ernst Grunow
(University of Cape Town)
Description
Relativistic hydrodynamics has been the tool of choice to simulate the dynamics of the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions.
Despite the success of hydrodynamics, it has several shortcomings stemming from the fact that it assumes a system close to equilibrium.
An alternative to hydrodynamics is solving the Boltzmann equation, which describes the evolution of the full distribution function of the system without the close to equilibrium requirement.
The Boltzmann equation, however, has hitherto proved computationally intractable.
By using a novel algorithm, and leveraging the computational power, we numerically integrate the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation.
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Prof. Andre Peshier
University of Cape Town
andre.peshier@uct.ac.za
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Primary author
Mr
Ernst Grunow
(University of Cape Town)
