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We discuss a cosmology in which cold dark matter begins to decay into relativistic particles at a recent epoch (z < 1). We show that the large entropy production and associated bulk viscosity from such decays leads to an accelerating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. J. Mathews , N. Q. Lan , C. Kolda

By means of a combined use of the type Ia supernovae and H(z) data tests, together with the study of the asymptotic properties in the equivalent phase space - through the use of the dynamical systems tools - we demonstrate that the bulk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-30 Arturo Avelino , Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo , Tame Gonzalez , Ulises Nucamendi , Israel Quiros

Possibly, the most general action in the background of isotropic and homogeneous space-time has been considered to study the quantum evolution of the early universe, apart from a cosmological constant. The hermiticity of the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-30 Ranajit Mandal , Dalia Saha , Mohosin Alam , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

When the vacuum like energy of the Higgs potential within the standard model undergoes electroweak phase transition, an influx of entropy into the primordial plasma can lead to a significant dilution of frozen out dark matter density that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Arnab Chaudhuri , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

The bulk viscosity of cosmological fluid and the creation of cold dark matter both result in the generation of irreversible entropy (related to dissipative processes) in a homogeneous and isotropic universe. To consider such effects, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-16 Nobuyoshi Komatsu , Shigeo Kimura

We investigate a model of disk galaxies whereby viscous evolution of the gaseous disk drives material inwards to form a proto-bulge. We start from the standard picture of disk formation through the settling of gas into a dark halo potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing Zhang , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

By using the thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes and Einstein general relativity, a cosmological model is proposed where the early universe is considered as a mixture of a scalar field with a matter field. The scalar field refers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kremer , F. P. Devecchi

A bulk viscosity is introduced in the formalism of modified gravity. It is shown that, on the basis of a natural scaling law for the viscosity, a simple solution can be found for quantities such as the Hubble parameter and the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-26 Iver Brevik

We have studied bulk viscosity in the modified $f(Q, T)$ gravity theory formalism, where $Q$ represents the non-metricity and $T$ denotes the trace of energy-momentum tensor within a flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Simran Arora , S. K. J. Pacif , Abhishek Parida , P. K. Sahoo

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of bulk viscous models with decaying vacuum energy density (VED) in a spatially homogeneous and isotropic flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre- Robertson-walker (FLRW) spacetime. We particularly are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-10 C. P. Singh , Vinita Khatri

In this paper, we have assumed a flat Friedmann-Lemaitr\'e-Robertson-Walker universe endowed with a general form of dissipation. The source of dissipation is considered to be a bulk viscous pressure $\Pi$ which leads to an adiabatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Subhajit Saha

There is mounting observational evidence that the expansion of our Universe is undergoing a late-time acceleration. Among many proposals to describe this phenomenon, the cosmological constant seems to be the simplest and the most natural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 S. Carneiro , C. Pigozzo , H. A. Borges , J. S. Alcaniz

This work explores the influence of viscous fluids on cosmological dynamics within the framework of General Relativity. We introduce a novel time-dependent parametrization for the bulk viscosity coefficient, given by \(\zeta = \zeta_0 (t -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Rajdeep Mazumdar , Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan

The full causal M\"uller-Israel-Stewart (MIS) theory of dissipative processes in relativistic fluids is applied to a flat, homogeneous and isotropic universe with bulk viscosity. It is clarified in which sense the so called truncated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Winfried Zimdahl

Bulk viscosity is the only viscous influence that can change the background dynamics in a homogeneous and isotropic universe. In the present work, we analyze the bulk viscous cosmological model with the bulk viscosity coefficient of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-13 Gaurav Gadbail , Simran Arora , P. K. Sahoo

Large-scale peculiar motions are believed to reflect the local inhomogeneity and anisotropy of the universe, triggered by the ongoing process of structure formation. As a result, realistic observers do not follow the smooth Hubble flow but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Christos G. Tsagas , Miltiadis I. Kadiltzoglou

We explore flat {\Lambda}CDM models with bulk viscosity, and study the role of the bulk viscosity in the evolution of these universe models. The dynamical equations for these models are obtained and solved for some cases of bulk viscosity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-04 Nouraddin Mostafapoor , Oyvind Gron

Spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type V space-time with bulk viscous fluid source and time varying gravitational constant $G$ and cosmological term $\Lambda$ are considered. Coefficient of bulk viscosity $\zeta$ is assumed as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-25 Prashant S. Baghel , J. P. Singh

We describe the accelerated expansion of the late-time universe using a generalized equation of state (EoS) when account is taken of bulk viscosity. We assume a homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime. Solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-05 I. Brevik , A. N. Makarenko , A. V. Timoshkin

Extending the standard $\Lambda$CDM model by considering dissipative effects within a causal viscous framework, and obtaining an analytical solution for the Hubble parameter remains a challenge in the literature. In this work, we resolve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Vishnu A Pai , Sarath N , Titus K Mathew