Bulk Viscous Cosmology: Unified Dark Matter

The bulk viscosity is introduced to model the current observational cosmos and the unified dark matter (dark matter and dark energy). The viscous unified model assumes that the universe is filled with a single nonperfect fluid with a bulk viscosity. We review the general framework for the viscous co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xu Dou, Xin-He Meng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Advances in Astronomy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/829340