Characteristic form of boost-invariant and cylindrically non-symmetric hydrodynamic equations

Abstract

It is shown that the boost-invariant and cylindrically non-symmetric hydrodynamic equations for baryon-free matter may be reduced to only two coupled differential equations. In the case where the system exhibits the cross-over phase transition, the standard numerical methods may be applied to solve these equations and the proposed scheme allows for a very convenient analysis of the cylindrically non-symmetric hydrodynamic expansion.

8 pages, 3 figures, 3 sets of figures