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The Use of Supercomputers in Stellar Dynamics

Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, June 2-4, 1986

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Piet Hut
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  2. Stephen L. W. McMillan
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 267)

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Table of contents (32 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Dynamical evolution of globular clusters

    • Lyman Spitzer
    Pages 3-4

  3. Disc galaxy dynamics on the computer

    • J. A. Sellwood
    Pages 5-12

  4. Star cluster dynamics: Mathematical models

    • D. C. Heggie
    Pages 13-22

  5. Models of hot stellar systems

    • T. S. van Albada
    Pages 23-35

  6. Supercomputers and large cosmological N-body simulations

    • G. Efstathiou
    Pages 36-45

  7. Modelling stellar dynamical systems on the CRAY-1S and the CDC Cyber 205

    • R. A. James
    Pages 49-53

  8. Programming the ETA10 for large problems in stellar dynamics

    • Clifford N. Arnold
    Pages 54-61

  9. The architecture of a homogeneous vector supercomputer

    • John L. Gustafson, Stuart Hawkinson, Ken Scott
    Pages 62-71

  10. The BBN multiprocessors: Butterfly and Monarch

    • D. C. Allen
    Pages 72-83

  11. The Connection Machine

    • Daniel Hillis
    Pages 84-85

  12. A digital Orrery

    • James H. Applegate, Michael R. Douglas, Yekta Gürsel, Peter Hunter, Charles L. Seitz, Gerald Jay Sussman
    Pages 86-95

  13. The outer solar system for 200 million years

    • James H. Applegate, Michael R. Douglas, Yekta Gürsel, Gerald J. Sussman, Jack Wisdom
    Pages 96-114

  14. Smooth particle hydrodynamics: Theory and application to the origin of the moon

    • Willy Benz
    Pages 117-124

  15. Multiple mesh techniques for modelling interacting galaxies

    • R. A. James, Tony Weeks
    Pages 125-129

  16. Numerical experiments on galactic halo formation

    • P. J. Quinn, J. K. Salmon, W. H. Zurek
    Pages 130-141

  17. Numerical integration using explicit taylor series

    • Myron Lecar
    Pages 142-145

  18. Multiple-mesh-particle scheme for N-body simulation

    • K. L. Chan, W. Y. Chau, C. Jessop, M. Jorgenson
    Pages 146-150

  19. Direct N-body simulation on supercomputers

    • Junichiro Makino
    Pages 151-155

  20. The vectorization of small-n integrators

    • Stephen L. W. McMillan
    Pages 156-161
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