Viscous Plane Symmetric String Cosmological Model in f (R) Gravity

Abstract

In this paper, we have used the Plane Symmetric LRS Bianchi type I metric to study bulk viscous fluid coupled to a string of clouds within the framework of the f (R) theory of gravity. To obtain the deterministic solutions, some physically plausible conditions like the weak field limit for a point-like source f (R) = R ^3/2 , the very well known expansion-shear scalar proportionality relation and the special form of an average scale factor are taken into account. Furthermore, we have calculated some physical and kinematical parameters along with the energy conditions to study the astrophysical implications of the constructed model and discussed their graphical behaviour, which shows good similarity with recent observational data.