Abstract
These notes are a summary of a lecture delivered at the 30th Erice School in Nuclear Physics and provide an elementary introduction to shear viscosity as it is applied to heavy ion collisions. After a qualitative review of the ideal and viscous space-time evolutions, I calculate the elliptic flow and discuss how viscosity affects the results.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 451-461 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2009 |
Keywords
- Elliptic flow
- Heavy ion collisions
- Hydrodynamics
- Shear viscosity
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