Characteristic properties of two different viscous cosmology models for the future universe

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Abstract: We analyze characteristic properties of two different cosmological models: (i) a one-component dark energy model where the bulk viscosity zeta is associated with the fluid as a whole, and (ii) a two-component model where zeta is associated with a dark matter component homm only, the dark energy component considered inviscid. Shear viscosity is omitted. We assume throughout the simple equation of state p=who, with w a constant. In the one-component model we consider two possibilities, either to take zeta proportional to the scalar expansion (equivalent to the Hubble parameter), in which case the evolution becomes critically dependent on the value of the small constant alpha=1+w and the magnitude of zeta. Second, we consider the case zeta=const., where a de Sitter final stage is reached in the future. In the two-component model we consider only the case where the dark matter viscosity zetamm is proportional to the square of homm, where again a de Sitter form is found in the future. In this latter case the formalism is supplemented by a phase space analysis. As a general result of our considerations we suggest that a value zeta0sim106Pa s for the present viscosity is reasonable, and that the two-component model seems to be favored.









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