β Scribed by Lee Lindblom
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The dynamics of the fluid fields in a large class of causal dissipative fluid theories is studied. It is shown that the physical fluid states in these theories must relax (on a time scale that is characteristic of the microscopic particle interactions) to ones that are essentially indistinguishable from the simple relativistic Navier Stokes descriptions of these states. Thus, for example, in the relaxed form of a physical fluid state the stress energy tensor is in effect indistinguishable from a perfect fluid stress tensor plus small dissipative corrections proportional to the shear of the fluid velocity, the gradient of the temperature, etc.
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AND E. Suraud Groupe de Physique ThΓ©orique, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, UniversitΓ© Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, cedex, France, \({ }^{+}\)and Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto ΔΉniversity, Kyoto 606, Japan