Speaker
Amos Yarom
(Princeton University)
Description
I will show how to generate non-trivial analytic solutions to the conformally invariant, relativistic fluid dynamic equations by appealing to the Weyl covariance of the stress tensor. The technique I will present recasts the relativistic conformally invariant Navier-Stokes equations in four-dimensional Minkowski space as a static flow in three-dimensional de Sitter space times a line. The solution obtained can be thought of as a generalization of Bjorken flow. The simplicity of the de Sitter form of the flow enables a study of second order viscous corrections and linearized perturbations.
Author
Amos Yarom
(Princeton University)
