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Relativistic non-resistive viscous magnetohydrodynamics from the kinetic theory: a relaxation time approach

Ankit Kumar Panda, Ashutosh Dash, Rajesh Biswas, Victor Roy

2021Journal of High Energy Physics44 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract We derive the relativistic non-resistive, viscous second-order magnetohydrodynamic equations for the dissipative quantities using the relaxation time approximation. The Boltzmann equation is solved for a system of particles and antiparticles using Chapman-Enskog like gradient expansion of the single-particle distribution function truncated at second order. In the first order, the transport coefficients are independent of the magnetic field. In the second-order, new transport coefficients that couple magnetic field and the dissipative quantities appear which are different from those obtained in the 14-moment approximation [1] in the presence of a magnetic field. However, in the limit of the weak magnetic field, the form of these equations are identical to the 14-moment approximation albeit with different values of these coefficients. We also derive the anisotropic transport coefficients in the Navier-Stokes limit.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsDissipative systemBoltzmann equationMagnetohydrodynamicsMagnetic fieldDistribution functionMagnetohydrodynamic driveRelaxation (psychology)Classical mechanicsQuantum electrodynamicsAnisotropyKinetic theoryLimit (mathematics)Kinetic energyMagnetizationMaxwell–Boltzmann distributionBoltzmann constantFunction (biology)Convection–diffusion equationPlasmaMathematical physicsFokker–Planck equationDifferential equationField (mathematics)Exact solutions in general relativityAmbipolar diffusionMagnetic energyWKB approximationDistribution (mathematics)Gas Dynamics and Kinetic TheoryHigh-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchNavier-Stokes equation solutions
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