Hydrodynamic Modeling for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC and the LHC

Abstract

In this article, we briefly review recent progress on hydrodynamic modeling and its implementations to relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The related topics include: 1) initial state fluctuations, final state correlations and event-by-event hydrodynamics, 2) extracting the QGP shear viscosity from flow data, 3) flow and hydrodynamics in 5.02 A TeV p+Pb collisions.

Comments: 12 pages, invited review for Pramana J of physics