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astro-ph1997
Astrophysical N-body simulations: algorithms and challenges
Rainer Spurzem
The subjects and key questions faced by computational astrophysics using N-body simulations are discussed in the fields of globular star cluster dynamics, galactic nuclei and cosmo…
astro-ph1997
Dynamical Simulations: Methods and Comparisons
D. C. Heggie, M. Giersz, R. Spurzem +1
We review recent progress in computational methods for studying the dynamical evolution of large star clusters. After describing some highlights of a new comparison of different mo…
astro-ph1997
Dynamical evolution of rotating stellar systems: I pre-collapse, equal mass systems
Ch. Einsel, R. Spurzem
The influence of rotation on the dynamical evolution of collisional stellar systems is investigated by solving the orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck equation in (E,J_z)-space. We find t…