Elliptic flow of the dilute Fermi gas: From kinetics to hydrodynamics
- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (United States)
We use the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation-time approximation to study the expansion of a dilute Fermi gas at unitarity. We focus, in particular, on the approach to the hydrodynamic limit. Our main findings are the following: (i) In the regime that has been studied experimentally hydrodynamic effects beyond the Navier-Stokes approximation are small. (ii) Mean-field corrections to the Boltzmann equation are not important. (iii) Experimental data imply that freezeout occurs very late, which means that the relaxation time remains smaller than the expansion time during the entire evolution of the system. (iv) The experimental results also imply that the bulk viscosity is significantly smaller than the shear viscosity of the system.
- OSTI ID:
- 22058755
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 84, Issue 1; Other Information: (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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