Head on collision of shock and breaking waves in degenerate hadronic plasmas

Abstract

Astronomical compact objects, like neutron stars, are made of Fermi-Dirac distributed hadronic matter which has a wide range of densities. In this work, non-relativistic dynamics of high density hadronic plasmas with shear and bulk viscosities are studied. The propagation of localized waves in media with hadronic gas equation of state is investigated. Initially, localized lumps are propagated as breaking and shock waves in inviscid media. It is shown that in the viscous case, the localized waves can travel longer distances before changing into shock or breaking profiles.