Formulating two-fluid dissipative magnetohydrodynamics for general-relativistic plasmas
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Abstract
Relativistic plasmas are central to the study of black hole accretion, jet physics, neutron star mergers, and compact object magnetospheres. I will describe a fully relativistic covariant 14-moment based two-fluid system appropriate for the study of electron-ion or electron-positron plasmas, which is obtained from the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation. Crucially, this new formulation can account for non-ideal effects, such as anisotropic pressures and heat fluxes. Finally, I will show how relativistic two-fluid plasmas can be recast into a dissipative single fluid formulation with dissipative corrections, while still maintaining self-consistent evolution equations for electron temperature and momentum.
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Publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stac1435
Presenters
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Elias R Most
Princeton University
Authors
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Elias R Most
Princeton University
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Jorge Noronha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Alexander A Philippov
University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland