I compute the first viscous correction to the thermal distribution function. With this correction, I calculate the effect of viscosity on spectra, elliptic flow, and HBT radii. Indicating the breakdown of hydrodynamics, viscous corrections become of order one for pT ∼ 1.5GeV. Viscous corrections to HBT radii are particularly large and reduce the outward and longitudinal radii. This reduction is...

The possibility that the present acceleration of the universe is driven by a kind of viscous fluid is exploited. At background level this model is similar to the generalized Chaplygin gas model (GCGM). But, at perturbative level, the viscous fluid exhibits interesting properties. In particular the oscillations in the power spectrum that plagues the GCGM are not present. Possible fundamental des...

In this article, we derive a viscous Boussinesq system for surface water waves from Navier-Stokes equations. So, we use neither the irrotationality assumption, nor the Zakharov-Craig-Sulem formulation. During the derivation, we find the bottom shear stress, and also the decay rate for shallow (and not deep) water. In order to justify our derivation, we check it by deriving the viscous Korteweg-...