Bulk viscosity and $n$-component fluids

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Main Author: Säppi, Saga
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Published: 2025
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contents Understanding the hydrodynamics of out-of-equilibrium dense viscous fluids is of key importance to accurate descriptions of physical systems such as compact stars, particularly their mergers. We consider a near-equilibrium relativistic fluid with $n$ independent and small chemical potentials restoring the system back towards equilibrium. By diagonalising the evolution equation for the out-of-equilibrium chemical potentials, we construct an explicit evolution equation for the bulk scalar of the system in second-order hydrodynamics in terms of equilibrium quantities. We find expressions for the $2n$ transport quantities and show that in the rest frame of the fluid, the system admits a Green's function corresponding to an $n$-component fluid.
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spellingShingle Bulk viscosity and $n$-component fluids
Säppi, Saga
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Understanding the hydrodynamics of out-of-equilibrium dense viscous fluids is of key importance to accurate descriptions of physical systems such as compact stars, particularly their mergers. We consider a near-equilibrium relativistic fluid with $n$ independent and small chemical potentials restoring the system back towards equilibrium. By diagonalising the evolution equation for the out-of-equilibrium chemical potentials, we construct an explicit evolution equation for the bulk scalar of the system in second-order hydrodynamics in terms of equilibrium quantities. We find expressions for the $2n$ transport quantities and show that in the rest frame of the fluid, the system admits a Green's function corresponding to an $n$-component fluid.
title Bulk viscosity and $n$-component fluids
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12365