  In this paper, we have constructed dark energy models in an anisotropic
Bianchi-V space-time and studied the role of anisotropy in the evolution of
dark energy. We have considered anisotropic dark energy fluid with different
pressure gradients along different spatial directions. In order to obtain a
deterministic solution, we have considered three general forms of scale factor.
The different forms of scale factors considered here produce time varying
deceleration parameters in all the cases that simulates the cosmic transition.
The variable equation of state (EoS) parameter, skewness parameters for all the
models are obtained and analyzed. The physical properties of the models are
also discussed.
