Viscous Bianchi type I universe with stiff matter and decaying vacuum energy density (Q454494)

Summary: We examine homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type I cosmological model with viscous stiff matter and time-varying cosmological term \(\Lambda \) which scales with Hubble parameter \(H\). The resulting model approaches isotropy. The cosmological term \(\Lambda \) relaxes to a genuine cosmological constant, and the model in the absence of bulk viscosity tends to a deSitter universe asymptotically. Our scenario presents an initial epoch with decelerating expansion followed by late-time acceleration consistent with observations. Bulk viscosity advances the accelerating phase in the model and prevents the matter density to vanish for large times.