Hydrodynamics of holographic flavored plasmas

Abstract

We provide a short review of the hydrodynamical properties of a class of strongly coupled thermal gauge theories, coupled to massless fundamental flavor fields, having a dual supergravity description. The analysis is valid for more general classes of nearly conformal holographic plasmas, where the breaking of conformality is driven by marginally (ir)relevant deformations.

Comments: 6 pages. V2: table 2 updated, a reference added. Contribution to the proceedings of the XVIth European Workshop on String Theory, Madrid, Spain, June 14-18 2010