The Cambridge N-body lectures
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The Cambridge N-body lectures
（Lecture notes in physics, 760）
Springer, c2010
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"Royal Astronomical Society"
"The Royal Astronomical Society series. A series on astronomy & astrophysics, geophysics, solar and solar-terrestrial physics, and planetary sciences"--T.p. verso
"During the extensive summer school on astrophysical N-body simulations, held in Cambridge, ... the Royal Astronomical Society encouraged us to edit a volume on the topic, to be published in the Royal Astronomical Society series. Subsequently, we collected the tutorial lecture notes assembled in this volume."--Pref. by editors
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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