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A note on incompressibility of relativistic fluids and the instantaneity of their pressures
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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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
- Subjects :
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
83C99 (Primary), 76B99 (Secondary)
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1601.08106
- Document Type :
- Working Paper