The Jeans instability criterion for a compressible fluid including viscosity and heat conduction (Q1115318)

For the region after the recombination era of the Universe the hydrodynamical density waves are analyzed including shear viscosity and heat conduction for \(\rho =\rho_ c\) as well as for \(\rho <\rho_ c\) \((\rho_ c\) is the critical density of the Universe). Very near to the end of the recombination era \((z=1200)\) we find the well-known Jeans instability. It is shown that the influence of the shear viscosity on the instabilities in negligible, however, a visible influence of the bulk viscosity is present.