Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve Mcmillan

Astrophysical Recipes (eBook, ePUB)

The art of AMUSE

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To gain an understanding of the way the universe works, it is important to understand how to perform simulations of astronomical phenomena. Astrophysical Recipes: The art of AMUSE delves into the ways in which computational science and astrophysics are connected, and how the bridge between observation and theory are understood.

Focusing on the use of the Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE), which is a general-purpose simulation environment in astrophysics, written in Python, this text explores aspects of astrophysical phenomena, such as gravitational dynamics, stellar evolution, hydrodynamics, and radiative transport to help increased understanding of these observations and theories. It gives explanations, examples and exercises that will enable you to set up initial conditions and then to design and develop a simulated environment that addresses numerous astrophysical questions. Aimed at master's students, graduate students and researchers, it encourages a hands-on approach that includes practicing, rewriting and solving problems of astronomical phenomena, and it encourages you to develop and publish your own scripts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750313209
• Artikelnr.: 56801384

Autorenporträt

Simon Portegies Zwart is currently a professor of numerical star dynamics at Leiden University, and he has research interests in computational gravitational dynamics, stellar and binary evolution and related topics. His ongoing work has been the development and building of the Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE). He has published more than 300 papers and received numerous citations in relevant works.

Steve McMillan is currently the head of the department of physics at Drexel University and his research interests lie in stellar dynamics and computations of stellar systems.

Both authors have dedicated extensive amounts of time to this book and continue to work on AMUSE as an ongoing project.