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Qualitative Viscous Cosmology

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

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9605063

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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