Qualitative viscous cosmology

A. A. Coley, R. J. van den Hoogen, R. Maartens

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Abstract

The full (nontruncated) Israel-Stewart theory of bulk viscosity is applied to dissipative FRW spacetimes. Dimensionless variables and dimensionless equations of state are used to write the Einstein-thermodynamic equations as a plane autonomous system and the qualitative behavior of this system is determined. Entropy production in these models is also discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1393-1397
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume54
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 1996

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