Open AccessEquations of general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics from a tensor formalism
Author(s) -
Park MyeongGu
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10081.x
Subject(s) - physics , covariant transformation , classical mechanics , radiative transfer , energy–momentum relation , formalism (music) , general relativity , tensor (intrinsic definition) , radiation , space time , photon , quantum electrodynamics , mathematical physics , quantum mechanics , art , musical , visual arts , mathematics , pure mathematics , chemical engineering , engineering
Radiation interacts with matter via exchange of energy and momentum. When matter is moving with a relativistic velocity or when the background space–time is strongly curved, rigorous relativistic treatment of hydrodynamics and radiative transfer is required. Here, we derive fully general relativistic radiation hydrodynamic equations from a covariant tensor formalism. The equations can be applied to any three‐dimensional problems and are rather straightforward to understand compared to the comoving frame‐based equations. The current approach is applicable to any space–time or coordinates, but in this work we specifically choose the Schwarzschild space–time to show explicitly how the hydrodynamic and the radiation moment equations are derived. Some important aspects of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and the difficulty with the radiation moment formalism are discussed as well.