The Cambridge N-Body Lectures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aarseth, Sverre J. (Editor), Tout, Christopher A. (Editor), Mardling, Rosemary A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 760
• Subjects: Physics.; Mechanics.; Astrophysics.; Atoms.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

Published under the auspices of the Royal Astronomical Society, this volume contains a set of extensive school tested lectures, with the aim to give a coherent and thorough background knowledge of the subject and to introduce the latest developments in N-body computational astrophysics. The topics c...

Table of Contents:

• Direct N-Body Codes
• Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem
• Resonance, Chaos and Stability: The Three-Body Problem in Astrophysics
• Fokker–planck Treatment of Collisional Stellar Dynamics
• Monte-Carlo Models of Collisional Stellar Systems
• Particle-Mesh Technique and Superbox
• Dynamical Friction
• Initial Conditions for Star Clusters
• Stellar Evolution
• N-Body Stellar Evolution
• Binary Stars
• N - Body Binary Evolution
• The Workings of a Stellar Evolution Code
• Realistic N - Body Simulations of Globular Clusters
• Parallelization, Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N - Body Simulations
• Educational N - Body Websites.