The Use of Supercomputers in Stellar Dynamics

Dynamical evolution of globular clusters....Pages 3-4
Disc galaxy dynamics on the computer....Pages 5-12
Star cluster dynamics: Mathematical models....Pages 13-22
Models of hot stellar systems....Pages 23-35
Supercomputers and large cosmological N-body simulations....Pages 36-45
Modelling stellar dynamical systems on the CRAY-1S and the CDC Cyber 205....Pages 49-53
Programming the ETA 10 for large problems in stellar dynamics....Pages 54-61
The architecture of a homogeneous vector supercomputer....Pages 62-71
The BBN multiprocessors: Butterfly and Monarch....Pages 72-83
The Connection Machine....Pages 84-85
A digital Orrery....Pages 86-95
The outer solar system for 200 million years....Pages 96-114
Smooth particle hydrodynamics: Theory and application to the origin of the moon....Pages 117-124
Multiple mesh techniques for modelling interacting galaxies....Pages 125-129
Numerical experiments on galactic halo formation....Pages 130-141
Numerical integration using explicit taylor series....Pages 142-145
Multiple-mesh-particle scheme for N-body simulation....Pages 146-150
Direct N-body simulation on supercomputers....Pages 151-155
The vectorization of small-n integrators....Pages 156-161
N-body integrations using supercomputers....Pages 162-166
A new numerical technique for calculation of phase space evolution of stellar systems....Pages 167-174
An efficient N -body algorithm for a fine-grain parallel computer....Pages 175-180
A gridless fourier method....Pages 181-183
Techniques and tricks for N-body computation....Pages 184-192
On toolboxes and telescopes....Pages 193-198
A unified N-body method....Pages 201-202
Vectorization of N-body codes....Pages 203-205
Large scale calculations of core oscillations in globular clusters....Pages 206-211
Round-off sensitivity in the N -body problem....Pages 212-218
Formation of a bar through cold collapse of a stellar system....Pages 219-222
The gravitational interaction between N-body (star clusters) and hydrodynamic (ISM) codes in disk galaxy simulations....Pages 223-229
Standardised units and time scales....Pages 233-235