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Hydrodynamics and Flow

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The main purpose of the lecture was to lead students and young postdocs to the frontier of the hydrodynamic description of relativistic heavy-ion collisions (H.I.C.) in order for them to understand talks and posters presented in the Quark Matter 2008 (QM08) conference in Jaipur, India [1]. So the most recent studies were not addressed in this lecture as they would be presented during the QM08 conference itself. Also, we try to give a very pedagogical lecture here. For the readers who may want to study relativistic hydrodynamics and its application to H.I.C. as an advanced course, we strongly recommend them to consult the references. This lecture note is divided into three parts. In the first part we give a brief introduction to relativistic hydrodynamics in the context of H.I.C. In the second part we present the formalism and some fundamental aspects of relativistic ideal and viscous hydrodynamics.

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Acknowledgments

One of the authors (T.H.) is much indebted to M. Gyulassy, T. Hatsuda, U. Heinz, T. Kunihiro, S. Muroya, M. Natsuume, and Y. Nara for fruitful discussion. The work of T.H. was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 19740130. One of the authors (A.B.) would like to thank Despoina Evangelakou for technical support during the writing of the lecture note.

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Hirano, T., van der Kolk, N., Bilandzic, A. (2009). Hydrodynamics and Flow. In: Sarkar, S., Satz, H., Sinha, B. (eds) The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02286-9_4

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