Thermal conduction before relaxation in slowly rotating fluids

Abstract

For slowly rotating fluids, we establish the existence of a critical point similar to the one found for non-rotating systems. As the fluid approaches the critical point, the effective inertial mass of any fluid element decreases, vanishing at that point and changing of sign beyond it. This result implies that first order perturbative method is not always reliable to study dissipative processes ocurring before relaxation. Physical consequences that might follow from this effect are commented.