In this talk, I will discuss the future-global nonlinear behavior of relativistic uids evolving in expanding spacetimes. I will focus on how the global behavior of the uid is aected by both the spacetime expansion rate and the uid equation of state. These topics are physically relevant for the following reasons: i) In cosmology, the relativistic uid model is the most often used model for the \normal" matter content of our spacetime. ii) Experimental evidence indicates that our spacetime is expanding. iii) The precise expansion rate is not known, and is in fact a current topic of debate. iv) Prior mathematical results show that the uid behavior is quite sensitive to the expansion rate. For example, in Minkowski spacetime (which is expansion-free), D. Christodoulou showed that the constant uid solutions with positive energy density are unstable. More precisely, he showed that arbitrarily small perturbations of their initial conditions can launch solutions that develop shock singularities in nite time. In contrast, I. Rodnianski and I showed that under some often-made assumptions on the equation of state, the spatially constant uid solutions with positive energy density are future-stable when the uid is irrotational and spacetime is expanding at an exponential rate. This talk concerns the expansion rates in between 0 and exponential without the irrotationality assumption. Furthermore, I will discuss several new results for the \radiation" equation of state p = (1=3); which plays a fundamental role in cosmological models of the early universe.