Thomas W. Baumgarte (Maine Bowdoin College), Stuart L. Shapiro (Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois)

Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Numerical relativity has emerged as the key tool to model gravitational waves that are emitted when two black holes collide. This book provides a pedagogical, accessible and concise introduction to the subject for non-experts, acquainting them with the key concepts underlying publicly available numerical relativity codes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781108928250
• ISBN-10: 1108928250
• Artikelnr.: 60368800

Autorenporträt

Thomas W. Baumgarte is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. His work in numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics has been recognized with prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, the American Physical Society, and the Simons Foundation. Stuart Shapiro and he have previously co-authored the graduate-level text Numerical Relativity: Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Newton's and Einstein's gravity
2. Foliations of spacetime: constraint and evolution equations
3. Solving the constraint equations
4 Solving the evolution equations
5. Numerical simulations of black-hole binaries
Epilogue
Appendix A. A brief review of tensor properties
Appendix B. A brief introduction to some numerical techniques
Appendix C. A very brief introduction to matter sources
Appendix D. A summary of important results
Appendix E. Answers to selected problems
References
Index.