Inflation in Terms of a Viscous van der Waals Coupled Fluid

We propose to describe the acceleration of the universe by introducing a model of two coupled fluids. We focus on the accelerated expansion at the early stages. The inflationary expansion is described in terms of a van der Waals equation of state for the cosmic fluid, when account is taken of bulk viscosity. We assume that there is a weak interaction between the van der Waals fluid and the second component (matter). The gravitational equations for the energy densities of the two components are solved for a homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe, and analytic expressions for the Hubble parameter are obtained. The slow-roll parameters, the spectral index, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio are calculated and compared with the most recent astronomical data from the Planck satellite. Given reasonable restriction on the parameters, the agreement with observations is favorable.Comment: 7 pages, no figures. To appear in Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phy

Little Rip and Pseudo Rip Phenomena from Coupled Dark Energy

We consider Little Rip (LR) and Pseudo Rip (PR) cosmological models with two interacting ideal fluids, corresponding to dark energy and dark matter. The interaction between the dark energy and the dark matter fluid components is described in terms of the parameters in the equations of state for the LR and PR universes. In contrast to a model containing only a pure dark energy, the presence of the interaction term between the fluid components in the gravitational equations leads to a modification of the equation of state parameters. The properties of the early universe in this formalism are pointed out.Comment: 11 pages, Latex2e, no figures. To appear in Modern Physics Letters

Holographic description of the dissipative unified dark fluid model with axion field

In this article we extend an axion F(R) gravity model, and apply the holographic principle to describe in a unifying manner the early and the late-time universe when the general equation of state (EoS) contains a bulk viscosity. We assume a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe model. We use a description based on the generalized infrared-cutoff holographic dark energy proposed by Nojiri and Odintsov (2006, 2017), and explore the evolution of the universe when the EoS describes the asymptotic behavior between the dust in the early universe and the late universe. We explore various forms of the bulk viscosity, and calculate analytical expressions for the infrared cutoffs in terms of the particle horizon. In this way we obtain a unifying description of the early and the late-time universe in the presence of axion matter, via a viscous holographic fluid model.Comment: 7 pages, latex 2e, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.