Conformal nonlinear fluid dynamics from gravity in arbitrary dimensions

Abstract

We generalize recent work to construct a map from the conformal Navier Stokes equations with holographically determined transport coefficients, in d spacetime dimensions, to the set of asymptotically locally AdS_d+1 long wavelength solutions of Einstein's equations with a negative cosmological constant, for all d> 2. We find simple explicit expressions for the stress tensor (slightly generalizing the recent result by Haack and Yarom (arXiv:0806.4602)), the full dual bulk metric and an entropy current of this strongly coupled conformal fluid, to second order in the derivative expansion, for arbitrary d> 2. We also rewrite the well known exact solutions for rotating black holes in AdS_d+1 space in a manifestly fluid dynamical form, generalizing earlier work in d = 4. To second order in the derivative expansion, this metric agrees with our general construction of the metric dual to fluid flows.