Interaction of viscous modified Chaplygin gas with f(R, T) gravity

Abstract

We study the evolution of viscous modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) interacting with f(R, T) gravity in flat FRW universe, where T is the trace of energy–momentum tensor. The field equations are formulated for a particular model f(R, T) = R + 2[Formula: see text]T and constraints for the conservation of energy–momentum tensor are obtained. We investigate the behavior of total energy density, pressure and equation of state (EoS) parameter for emergent, intermediate as well as logamediate scenarios of the universe with two interacting models. It is found that the EoS parameter lies in the matter-dominated or quintessence era for all the three scenarios while the bulk viscosity enhances the expansion for the intermediate and logamediate scenarios.