Transient fluid dynamics with general matching conditions: a first study from the method of moments

Abstract

Recent works have revealed that matching conditions play a major role on general consistency properties of relativistic fluid dynamics such as causality, stability and wellposedness of the equations of motion. In this paper we derive transient fluid dynamics from kinetic theory, using the method of moments as proposed by Israel and Stewart, without imposing an specific matching condition. We then investigate how the equations of motion and their corresponding transport coefficients are affected by the choice of matching condition.