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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146559403321

Titolo

The Cambridge n-body lectures / / Sverre Aarseth, Christopher Tout, Rosemary Mardling, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-4020-8431-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 402 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics

Disciplina

530.144

Soggetti

Many-body problem

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.