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Record Nr.

UNISA996466678903316

Titolo

Galactic Dynamics and N-Body Simulations [[electronic resource] ] : Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School VI Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Thessaloniki, Greece, 13–23 July 1993 / / edited by G. Contopoulos, N.K. Spyrou, L. Vlahos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1994

ISBN

3-540-48409-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 1994.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 417 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 433

Disciplina

523.1/12

Soggetti

Geophysics

Space sciences

Physics

Quantum computers

Spintronics

Quantum physics

Geophysics/Geodesy

Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

Quantum Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Lectures on stellar dynamics -- Order and chaos -- Self-consistent models of spiral galaxies -- The study of instability in stellar dynamics -- Elliptical galaxies -- Direct methods for N-Body simulations -- Fundamentals of gas-dynamical simulations -- Galaxy formation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an in-depth coverage of modern research on dynamical systems. The first part discusses stellar dynamics, integrable systems, the transition to chaos and instabilities in stellar dynamics as



well as the dynamics of spiral galaxies. Models are given and compared with observations. The second part is devoted to the direct method of N-body simulations, to gas dynamics simulations and to galaxy formation. Special care is taken to give to a pedagogical presentation of the material which makes this a unique text well suited for graduate courses in astrophysics.