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  • © 1994

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

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 433)

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Lectures on stellar dynamics

    • D. Lynden-Bell
    Pages 1-31
  3. Order and chaos

    • G. Contopoulos
    Pages 33-100
  4. Self-consistent models of spiral galaxies

    • Preben Grosbøl
    Pages 101-141
  5. Elliptical galaxies

    • Ortwin E. Gerhard
    Pages 191-274
  6. Direct methods for N-Body simulations

    • Sverre J. Aarseth
    Pages 275-312
  7. Fundamentals of gas-dynamical simulations

    • Ewald Müller
    Pages 313-363
  8. Galaxy formation

    • Nikos Voglis
    Pages 365-417

About this book

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.

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