Radiating fluid spheres in the effective variables approximation

We study the evolution of spherically symmetric radiating fluid distributions using the effective variables method, implemented {\it ab initio} in Schwarzschild coordinates. To illustrate the procedure and to establish some comparison with the original method, we integrate numerically the set of equations at the surface for two different models. The first model is derived from the Schwarzschild interior solution. The second model is inspired in the Tolman VI solution.