Ghosh, S. G.Sarwe, S. B.Saraykar, R. V.2012-03-122012-03-122011-07-06http://hdl.handle.net/11007/1215We investigate the occurrence and nature of naked singularities in the gravitational collapse of a self-similar adiabatic perfect fluid in a five dimensional space-time. The naked singularities are found to be gravitationally strong in the sense of Tipler and thus violate the cosmic censorship conjecture.enfLuidfIve dimensional space-timecosmic censorshipArticle