European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (Apr 2022)

Shock waves in relativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics

  • Aleksandr Kovalenko,
  • Andrei Leonidov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10337-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 82, no. 4
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Abstract Shock wave solutions in anisotropic relativistic hydrodynamics are analysed. A new phenomenon of anisotropy-related angular deflection of the incident flow by the shock wave front is described. Patterns of velocity and momentum transformation by the shock wave front are described.