The Cambridge N-Body Lectures

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8430-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 760, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 863 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, with the aim to give a coherent and thorough background knowledge of the subject and to introduce the latest developments in N-body computational astrophysics.

The topics cover a wide range from the classical few-body problem with discussions of resonance, chaos and stability to realistic modelling of star clusters as well as descriptions of codes, algorithms and special hardware for N-body simulations.

This collection of topics, related to the gravitational N-body problem, will prove useful to both students and researchers in years to come.

1)     Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aarseth, Sverre

Tout, Christopher

Mardling, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Klassische Mechanik, Newtonsche Mechanik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Direct N-Body Codes.- Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem.- Resonance, Chaos and Stability: The Three-Body Problem in Astrophysics.- Fokker–planck Treatment of Collisional Stellar Dynamics.- Monte-Carlo Models of Collisional Stellar Systems.- Particle-Mesh Technique and Superbox.- Dynamical Friction.- Initial Conditions for Star Clusters.- Stellar Evolution.- N-Body Stellar Evolution.- Binary Stars.- N - Body Binary Evolution.- The Workings of a Stellar Evolution Code.- Realistic N - Body Simulations of Globular Clusters.- Parallelization, Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N - Body Simulations.- Educational N - Body Websites.