Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy-Ion Collisions

Abstract

We review progress in the hydrodynamic description of heavy-ion collisions, focusing on recent developments in modeling the fluctuating initial state and event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic simulations. We discuss how hydrodynamics can be used to extract information on fundamental properties of quantum-chromo-dynamics from experimental data, and review successes and challenges of the hydrodynamic framework.

Comments: 27 pages, 7 figures, invited review for a special issue of International Journal of Modern Physics A