(1) Department of Physics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, 241000, P.R.China
Abstract:
String cosmological models with bulk viscosity are investigated in Kantowski-Sachs space-time. To obtain a determinate solution,
it is assumed that the coefficient of bulk viscosity is a power function of the scalar of expansion ζ = kθm and the scalar of expansion is proportional to the shear scalar θ ∝ σ, which leads to a relation between metric potentials
R = ASn. The physical and geometrical aspects of the model are also discussed. It is shown that the bulk viscosity has significant
influence on the evolution of the universe. There is a ‘big bang’ start in the model when m ≤ 1 but there is no ‘big bang’
start when m > 1.