Imperfect fluid BD-FRW cosmologies (Q579092)

It is known [\textit{A. A. Coley} and \textit{B. O. J. Tupper}, Astrophys. J. 271, 1-8 (1983) and ibid. 288, 418-421 (1985)] that a spacetime with a perfect fluid distribution may also satisfy an imperfect fluid or an alternative fluid distribution in the same coordinate frame provided one is able to find a suitable velocity for the latter which is tilted with respect to the co-moving observers. In this paper, the authors extended the concept of tilted velocity used by Coley and Tupper for a class of exact imperfect fluid solutions of the Brans-Dicke (BD) fluid equations. They obtained two classes of imperfect fluid models in the BD theory with the spacetime given by zero-curvature Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric.