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Record Nr.

UNISA996466834303316

Titolo

The Use of Supercomputers in Stellar Dynamics [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, June 2-4, 1986 / / edited by Piet Hut, Stephen L.W. McMillian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1986

ISBN

3-540-47361-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 1986.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 240 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 267

Disciplina

520

Soggetti

Observations, Astronomical

Astronomy—Observations

Astrophysics

Physics

Computational complexity

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

Astrophysics and Astroparticles

Mathematical Methods in Physics

Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

Complexity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Dynamical evolution of globular clusters -- Disc galaxy dynamics on the computer -- Star cluster dynamics: Mathematical models -- Models of hot stellar systems -- Supercomputers and large cosmological N-body simulations -- Modelling stellar dynamical systems on the CRAY-1S and the CDC Cyber 205 -- Programming the ETA10 for large problems in stellar dynamics -- The architecture of a homogeneous vector supercomputer -- The BBN multiprocessors: Butterfly and Monarch -- The Connection Machine -- A digital Orrery -- The outer solar system for 200 million years -- Smooth particle hydrodynamics: Theory and application to the origin of the moon -- Multiple mesh techniques for modelling interacting galaxies -- Numerical



experiments on galactic halo formation -- Numerical integration using explicit taylor series -- Multiple-mesh-particle scheme for N-body simulation -- Direct N-body simulation on supercomputers -- The vectorization of small-n integrators -- N-body integrations using supercomputers -- A new numerical technique for calculation of phase space evolution of stellar systems -- An efficient N-body algorithm for a fine-grain parallel computer -- A gridless fourier method -- Techniques and tricks for N-body computation -- On toolboxes and telescopes -- A unified N-body method -- Vectorization of N-body codes -- Large scale calculations of core oscillations in globular clusters -- Round-off sensitivity in the N-body problem -- Formation of a bar through cold collapse of a stellar system -- The gravitational interaction between N-body (star clusters) and hydrodynamic (ISM) codes in disk galaxy simulations -- Standardised units and time scales.