Galactic Dynamics and N-Body Simulations
Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School VI Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-23 July 1993
Published on 24. June 1994
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Hardback
XIV, 417 pages
978-3-540-57983-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
765 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-57983-0 (9783540579830)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-57983-4
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Galactic Dynamics and N-Body Simulations
Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School VI Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-23 July 1993
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Content
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.