Fernando G. Gardim

Anisotropic flow in event-by-event ideal hydrodynamic simulations of

We simulate top-energy Au+Au collisions using ideal hydrodynamics in order to make the first comparison to the complete set of midrapidity flow measurements made by the PHENIX Collaboration. A simultaneous calculation of v(2), v(3), v(4), and the first event-by-event calculation of quadrangular flow defined with respect to the v(2) event plane (v(4){Ψ(2)}) gives good agreement with measured values, including the dependence on both transverse momentum and centrality. This provides confirmation that the collision system is indeed well described as a quark-gluon plasma with an extremely small viscosity and that correlations are dominantly generated from collective effects. In addition, we present a prediction for v(5).

\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200

We investigate the correlation between various aspects of the initial geometry of heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies and the final anisotropic flow, using v-USPhydro, a 2+1 event-by-event viscous relativistic hydrodynamical model. We test the extent of which shear and bulk viscosity affect the prediction of the final flow harmonics,

GeV Au+Au collisions

v_n

Effects of viscosity on the mapping of initial to final state in heavy ion collisions

, from the initial eccentricities,

Directed flow at mid-rapidity in event-by-event hydrodynamics

\varepsilon_n

Hydrodynamic Predictions for Mixed Harmonic Correlations in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions

. We investigate in detail the flow harmonics

Decomposition of fluctuating initial conditions and flow harmonics

v_1

Origin of trigger-angle dependence of di-hadron correlations

through

Characterizing the hydrodynamic response to the initial conditions

v_5

Influence of tubular initial conditions on two-particle correlations

where we find that