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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 15: Fundamental Problems and General Formalism

GR 15.5: Talk

Thursday, March 19, 2015, 12:30–12:50, H 2013

Fluid dynamics on Finsler spacetimes — •Manuel Hohmann — Institut für Physik, Universität Tartu, Estland

I discuss the description of fluid dynamics in the language of Finsler spacetime geometry. Such a description is an important ingredient for gravity theories based on Finsler geometry. The description I present here is based on the kinetic theory of fluids on the tangent bundle of spacetime. In my talk I introduce the basic geometric concepts and provide illustrative examples, in particular for fluids with cosmological symmetry.