Abstract
We have investigated cosmological models with a self-interacting scalar field and a dissipative matter fluid as the sources of matter. Different variables are expressed in terms of a generating function. Exact solutions are obtained for one particular choice of the generating function. The potential corresponding to this generating function is a standard tree-level potential arising in the perturbative regime in quantum field theory. With suitable choice of parameters, the scale factor in our model exhibits both decelerating behaviour in the early time as well as an accelerating phase at late times. For certain choices of the parameter the solution also exhibits an attractor nature towards an asymptotic de-Sitter universe.
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