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A Note on Incompressibility of Relativistic Fluids and the Instantaneity of their Pressures

Authors :
Moritz Reintjes
Source :
Reports on Mathematical Physics. 82:113-120
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2018.

Abstract

We introduce a natural notion of incompressibility for fluids governed by the relativistic Euler equations on a fixed background spacetime, and show that the resulting equations reduce to the incompressible Euler equations in the classical limit as $c\rightarrow \infty$. As our main result, we prove that the fluid pressure of solutions of these incompressible "relativistic" Euler equations satisfies an elliptic equation on each of the hypersurfaces orthogonal to the fluid four-velocity, which indicates infinite speed of propagation.<br />Comment: 7 pages. Version 2: Improved wording and presentation

Details

ISSN :
00344877
Volume :
82
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Reports on Mathematical Physics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....af5c6eae27e9fedf137bdc76ef27b8e1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0034-4877(18)30073-9