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Title: Relativistic analogue of the Newtonian fluid energy equation with nucleosynthesis

Abstract

In Newtonian fluid dynamics simulations in which composition has been tracked by a nuclear reaction network, energy generation due to composition changes has generally been handled as a separate source term in the energy equation. Here, a relativistic equation in conservative form for total fluid energy, obtained from the spacetime divergence of the stress-energy tensor, in principle encompasses such energy generation; but it is not explicitly manifest. An alternative relativistic energy equation in conservative form—in which the nuclear energy generation appears explicitly, and that reduces directly to the Newtonian internal+kinetic energy in the appropriate limit—emerges naturally and self-consistently from the difference of the equation for total fluid energy and the equation for baryon number conservation multiplied by the average baryon mass m, when m is expressed in terms of contributions from the nuclear species in the fluid, and allowed to be mutable.

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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1456814
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1416431
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS

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Cardall, Christian Y. Relativistic analogue of the Newtonian fluid energy equation with nucleosynthesis. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123014.
Cardall, Christian Y. Relativistic analogue of the Newtonian fluid energy equation with nucleosynthesis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123014
Cardall, Christian Y. Fri . "Relativistic analogue of the Newtonian fluid energy equation with nucleosynthesis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123014. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1456814.
@article{osti_1456814,
title = {Relativistic analogue of the Newtonian fluid energy equation with nucleosynthesis},
author = {Cardall, Christian Y.},
abstractNote = {In Newtonian fluid dynamics simulations in which composition has been tracked by a nuclear reaction network, energy generation due to composition changes has generally been handled as a separate source term in the energy equation. Here, a relativistic equation in conservative form for total fluid energy, obtained from the spacetime divergence of the stress-energy tensor, in principle encompasses such energy generation; but it is not explicitly manifest. An alternative relativistic energy equation in conservative form—in which the nuclear energy generation appears explicitly, and that reduces directly to the Newtonian internal+kinetic energy in the appropriate limit—emerges naturally and self-consistently from the difference of the equation for total fluid energy and the equation for baryon number conservation multiplied by the average baryon mass m, when m is expressed in terms of contributions from the nuclear species in the fluid, and allowed to be mutable.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.96.123014},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 12,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: A common but problematic correspondence between Newtonian and relativistic fluid dynamics.

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