THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS

TEORIJSKA I PRIMENJENA MEHANIKA  2001 Vol.26, pp.71-82

Summary: 

G. Mohanty, B. Mishra

Dissipation of general viscous fluid distribution in Einstein and Barber theories

An attempt has been taken to investigate the problem of general viscous fluid distribution in the space-time governed by the metric

in both the theories of gravitation proposed by Einstein (1915) and Barber (1982). It is observed that in both the theories the field equations are reducible to Laplace equation and viscous fluid distribution does not survive. Moreover, the vacuum models can be constructed by an arbitrary harmonic function in y and z coordinates and the solutions governing the models represent plane gravitational wave propagating in positive x-direction.