First-order viscous relativistic hydrodynamics has long been thought to be unsta-
ble and acausal. This is not true; it is only with certain definitions of the hydrody-
namic variables that the equations of motion display these properties. It is possible
to define the hydrodynamic variables such that a fluid is both stable and causal at
first order. This thesis does so for both uncharged and charged fluids, mostly for
fluids at rest. Work has also been done in limited cases on fluids in motion. A class of
stable and causal theories is identified via constraints on transport coefficients derived
from linearized perturbations of the equilibrium state. Causality conditions are also
derived for the full non-linear hydrodynamic equations. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/11976 |
| Date | 05 August 2020 |
| Creators | Hoult, Raphael E |
| Contributors | Kovtun, Pavel |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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