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Kinetic approach to relativistic dissipation

A Gabbana1, M Mendoza2, S Succi3

  • 1INFN-Ferrara, Università di Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy.

Physical Review. E
|September 28, 2017
PubMed
Summary

Understanding how relativistic fluid dissipation emerges from microscopic dynamics is challenging. This study supports the Chapman-Enskog procedure over Grad's method for deriving transport coefficients in relativistic hydrodynamics.

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