Qualitative Viscous Cosmology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The Full (non--truncated) 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 behaviour of this system is determined. Entropy production in these models is also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9605063,
title = {Qualitative Viscous Cosmology},
author = {A. A. Coley and R. J. van den Hoogen and R. Maartens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9605063},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, REVTeX, accepted for publication in Physical Review D