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A note on incompressibility of relativistic fluids and the instantaneity of their pressures

Authors :
Reintjes, Moritz
Publication Year :
2016

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

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1601.08106
Document Type :
Working Paper