On the Thermodynamics of Simple Non-Isentropic Perfect Fluids in General Relativity

Details On the Thermodynamics of Simple Non-Isentropic Perfect Fluids in General Relativity On the Thermodynamics of Simple Non-Isentropic Perfect Fluids in General Relativity

1994-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9411022v1

Class.Quant.Grav.12:859-874,1995

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

29 pages, Plain.TeX

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/12/3/022

We examine the consistency of the thermodynamics of irrotational and non-isentropic perfect fluids complying with matter conservation by looking at the integrability conditions of the Gibbs-Duhem relation. We show that the latter is always integrable for fluids of the following types: (a) static, (b) isentropic (admits a barotropic equation of state), (c) the source of a spacetime for which $r\ge 2$, where $r$ is the dimension of the orbit of the isometry group. This consistency scheme is tested also in two large classes of known exact solutions for which $r< 2$, in general: perfect fluid Szekeres solutions (classes I and II). In none of these cases, the Gibbs-Duhem relation is integrable, in general, though specific particular cases of Szekeres class II (all complying with $r<2$) are identified for which the integrability of this relation can be achieved. We show that Szekeres class I solutions satisfy the integrability conditions only in two trivial cases, namely the spherically symmetric limiting case and the Friedman-Roberson-Walker (FRW) cosmology. Explicit forms of the state variables and equations of state linking them are given explicitly and discussed in relation to the FRW limits of the solutions. We show that fixing free parameters in these solutions by a formal identification with FRW parameters leads, in all cases examined, to unphysical temperature evolution laws, quite unrelated to those of their FRW limiting cosmologies.

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