%0 Journal Article
%T Anisotropic hydrodynamics -- basic concepts
%A Wojciech Florkowski
%A Mauricio Martinez
%A Radoslaw Ryblewski
%A Michael Strickland
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%X Due to the rapid longitudinal expansion of the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions, potentially large local rest frame momentum-space anisotropies are generated. The magnitude of these momentum-space anisotropies can be so large as to violate the central assumption of canonical viscous hydrodynamical treatments which linearize around an isotropic background. In order to better describe the early-time dynamics of the quark gluon plasma, one can consider instead expanding around a locally anisotropic background which results in a dynamical framework called anisotropic hydrodynamics. In this proceedings contribution we review the basic concepts of the anisotropic hydrodynamics framework presenting viewpoints from both the phenomenological and microscopic points of view.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7539v1