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Perfect fluids 

Finally we come to the type of fluid which will be of most interest to us. A perfect fluid  in Special Relativity is defined to be a fluid that has no heat conduction in the MCRF. It is the generalization of the ideal gas in ordinary thermodynamics. In the MCRF  the components of tex2html_wrap_inline1076 are

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It is easy to show that in a general frame we have [ Assignment 4 ]:

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This is the energy- momentum tensor of a perfect fluid .


Peter Dunsby
Sat Jun 15 22:02:24 ADT 1996