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
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-3-662-13982-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 433, 417 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Contopoulos, G.

Vlahos, L.

Spyrou, N.K.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.