The Cambridge N-Body Lectures

Herausgegeben:Aarseth, Sverre; Tout, Christopher; Mardling, Rosemary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 theauspices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Physics 760
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-7879-7
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9789048178797
• ISBN-10: 9048178797
• Artikelnr.: 32094055

Inhaltsangabe

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.