Hydrodynamics of low-dimensional interacting systems: Advances, challenges, and future directions

Kinetic predictions for the blast in cold gas

Jun 10, 2025, 12:15 PM

45m

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Speaker

Umesh Kumar

Description

I will present our recent (ongoing) work on understanding blast in cold gas of hard discs in two dimensions. We are able to make some theoretical estimates for quantities of interest in the hydrodynamic limit and test them using simulations.