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Gabriel S Rocha1,2,3, David Wagner3,4, Gabriel S Denicol2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, 1221 Stevenson Center Lane, Nashville, TN 37212, USA.
Abstract:
Relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics finds widespread applications in high-energy nuclear physics and astrophysics. However, formulating a causal and stable theory of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics is far from trivial; efforts to accomplish this reach back more than 50 years. In this review, we give an overview of the field and attempt a comparative assessment of (at least most of) the theories for relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics proposed until today and used in applications.
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