2016/05/09 by Dmitry Shogin, Shogin, Dmitry, P. A. Amundsen +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.02430
13 pages, no figures
arxiv created 2016/05/09 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/09 · arxiv updated 2016/05/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We apply the second-order Israel-Stewart theory of relativistic fluid- and thermodynamics to a physically realistic model of a radiative fluid in a simple anisotropic cosmological background. We investigate the asymptotic future of the resulting cosmological model and review the role of the dissipative phenomena in the early Universe. We demonstrate that the transport properties of the fluid alone, if described appropriately, do not explain the presently observed accelerated expansion of the Universe. Also, we show that, in constrast to the mathematical fluid models widely used before, the radiative fluid does approach local thermal equilibrium at late times, although very slowly, due to the cosmological expansion.