On a radiating fluid in a general relativistic context

Abstract

A model for the radiation hydrodynamics in general relativity is analyzed, describing the gravitational collapse and supernovae explosion. As these physical phenomena can be assumed spherically symmetric, the equations of motion for a unique fluid, representing the interaction between matter and radiation, are written in a spherical symmetric space-time with respect to a comoving frame. The system is completed by using the Eddington closure, assuming a local thermodynamical equilibrium for the radiation field. The resulting system is analyzed by the Lie symmetry approach and a reduction to an ODEs system is obtained. Numerical simulations of the solutions are performed, showing a realistic enough description of the physical phenomena.