  We consider static non-extremal charged black hole solutions in the context
of N=2 gauged supergravity theories in five dimensions, and we show that they
satisfy first-order flow equations. Then we analyze the motion of the dual
brane in these black hole backgrounds. We express the entropy in terms of a
Cardy-Verlinde-type formula, and we show that the equations describing the FRW
cosmology on the brane have a form that is similar to the equations for the
entropy and for the Casimir energy on the brane. We also briefly comment on the
inclusion of a Gauss-Bonnet term in the analysis.
