Relativistic Wind Farm Effect: Possibly Turbulent Flow of a Charged, Massless Relativistic Fluid in Graphene [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07839


At low Reynolds numbers, the wind flow in the wake of a single wind turbine is generally not turbulent. However, turbines in wind farms affect each other’s wakes so that a turbulent flow can arise. In the present work, an analogue of this effect for the massless charge carrier flow around obstacles in graphene is outlined. We use a relativistic hydrodynamic simulation to analyze the flow in a sample containing impurities. Depending on the density of impurities in the sample, we indeed find evidence for potentially turbulent flow and discuss experimental consequences.

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M. Watson
Thu, 17 Feb 22
40/60

Comments: 7 pages, 9 figures