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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1986
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1986.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VI, 240 p.)
• Disciplina: 520
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): HutPiet; McMillianStephen L.W
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Use of Supercomputers in Stellar Dynamics
• ISBN: 3-540-47361-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466834303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lecture Notes in Physics, . 0075-8450 ; ; 267