CMSA General Relativity Program: A brief overview of recent developments in relativistic fluids

CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS

Speaker:

Profssor Marcelo Disconzi

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In this series of lectures, we will discuss some recent developments in the field of relativistic fluids, considering both the motion of relativistic fluids in a fixed background or coupled to Einstein’s equations. The topics to be discussed will include: the relativistic free-boundary Euler equations with a physical vacuum boundary, a new formulation of the relativistic Euler equations tailored to applications to shock formation, and formulations of relativistic fluids with viscosity.

1. Set-up, review of standard results, physical motivation.
2. The relativistic Euler equations: null structures and the problem of shocks.
3. The free-boundary relativistic Euler equations with a physical vacuum boundary.
4. Relativistic viscous fluids.

 

May 16 – 17, 2022
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, ET, each day

Location: Hybrid. CMSA main seminar room, G-10. Zoom link will be available.

All in-person attendees must register online.

For more information, please see https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/gr-program/