Causal dissipative hydrodynamics for heavy ion collisions

Abstract

We briefly discuss the recent developments in causal dissipative hydrodynamic for relativistic heavy ion collisions. Phenomenological estimate of QGP viscosity over entropy ratio from several experimental data, e.g. STAR's $\varphi$ meson data, centrality dependence of elliptic flow, universal scaling elliptic flow etc. are discussed. QGP viscosity, extracted from hydrodynamical model analysis can have very large systematic uncertainty due to uncertain initial conditions.

Comments: Invited talk at 6th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2010), 6-10 December 2010, Goa, India. 8 pages, 5 figures