O. Soloveva

Beyond Viscosity Matching: Microscopic Relaxation in Anisotropic Flow

When a gas of scattering particles is disturbed, each angular harmonic of its velocity distribution decays at its own rate. Hydrodynamics, and with it the shear viscosity, depends on only one of these rates, the one for the quadrupole harmonic. A system that scatters only a few times before it stops interacting remembe...