Elements of Numerical Relativity

• Main Authors: Bona, Carles (Author), Palenzuela-Luque, Carlos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 673
• Subjects: Physics.; Computer mathematics.; Gravitation.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Computational Science and Engineering.

Spurred by the current development of numerous large-scale projects for detecting gravitational radiation, with the aim to open a completely new window to the observable Universe, numerical relativity has become a major field of research over the past years. Indeed, numerical relativity is the stand...

Table of Contents:

• The Four-Dimensional Spacetime
• The Evolution Formalism
• Free Evolution
• First Order Hyperbolic Systems
• Boundary Conditions
• Black Hole Simulations
• References
• Index.