The Cambridge N-Body Lectures

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Aarseth, Sverre (Editor), Tout, Christopher (Editor), Mardling, Rosemary (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Lecture Notes in Physics, 760
Subjects:
Astrophysics.
Mechanics.
Mathematical physics.
Atoms.
Molecules.
Classical Mechanics.
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.
Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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