Acausality-driven instabilities in transient relativistic viscous hydrodynamics
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| author | Gavassino, Lorenzo Hirvonen, Henry Paquet, Jean-François Singh, Mayank Rocha, Gabriel Soares |
| author_facet | Gavassino, Lorenzo Hirvonen, Henry Paquet, Jean-François Singh, Mayank Rocha, Gabriel Soares |
| contents | We investigate non-linear instabilities stemming from superluminal propagation of information in Israel-Stewart-like models of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics. In relativity, the characteristic speed of propagation of information, $w$, and the speed of the fluid, $v$, allow us to differentiate between regimes of the hydrodynamic equations that are acausal but stable ($w>1$), unstable ($v^{2} w^{2} \geq 1$), and covariantly ill-posed ($w^{2} \leq 0$). As an analytical benchmark, we present a new solution that illustrates these distinct regimes. We compare this analytical solution to the result of a numerical relativistic viscous fluid dynamics solver, and confirm that the analytical result can be recovered numerically in the stable regime, whether causal or acausal. The onset of numerical instabilities is further found to occur in the regime predicted by the analytical solution. |
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| spellingShingle | Acausality-driven instabilities in transient relativistic viscous hydrodynamics Gavassino, Lorenzo Hirvonen, Henry Paquet, Jean-François Singh, Mayank Rocha, Gabriel Soares Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We investigate non-linear instabilities stemming from superluminal propagation of information in Israel-Stewart-like models of relativistic viscous fluid dynamics. In relativity, the characteristic speed of propagation of information, $w$, and the speed of the fluid, $v$, allow us to differentiate between regimes of the hydrodynamic equations that are acausal but stable ($w>1$), unstable ($v^{2} w^{2} \geq 1$), and covariantly ill-posed ($w^{2} \leq 0$). As an analytical benchmark, we present a new solution that illustrates these distinct regimes. We compare this analytical solution to the result of a numerical relativistic viscous fluid dynamics solver, and confirm that the analytical result can be recovered numerically in the stable regime, whether causal or acausal. The onset of numerical instabilities is further found to occur in the regime predicted by the analytical solution. |
| title | Acausality-driven instabilities in transient relativistic viscous hydrodynamics |
| topic | Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04918 |