On the gravitational collapse of a gas cloud in the presence of bulk viscosity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/22/005zbMATH Open1078.83028arXivgr-qc/0510087OpenAlexW2084834572MaRDI QIDQ5709846FDOQ5709846

Authors: Nakia Carlevaro, Giovanni Montani 

Publication date: 30 November 2005

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the effects induced by the bulk viscosity on the dynamics associated to the extreme gravitational collapse. Aim of the work is to investigate whether the presence of viscous corrections to the evolution of a collapsing gas cloud influence the fragmentation process. To this end we study the dynamics of a uniform and spherically symmetric cloud with corrections due to the negative pressure contribution associated to the bulk viscosity phenomenology. Within the framework of a Newtonian approach (whose range of validity is outlined), we extend to the viscous case either the Lagrangian, either the Eulerian motion of the system and we treat the asymptotic evolution in correspondence to a viscosity coefficient of the form $zeta=zet{a}_{0}h{o}^{nu}$ ($ho$ being the cloud density and $zet{a}_0=const.$). We show how, in the adiabatic-like behavior of the gas (i.e. when the politropic index takes values $4/3<gammaleq5/3$), density contrasts acquire, asymptotically, a vanishing behavior which prevents the formation of sub-structures. We can conclude that in the adiabatic-like collapse the top down mechanism of structures formation is suppressed as soon as enough strong viscous effects are taken into account. Such a feature is not present in the isothermal-like (i.e. $1leqgamma<4/3$) collapse because the sub-structures formation is yet present and outlines the same behavior as in the non-viscous case. We emphasize that in the adiabatic-like collapse the bulk viscosity is also responsible for the appearance of a threshold scale beyond which perturbations begin to increase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0510087

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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