Computational Astrophysics

Programming Guides (by Steffen Knollmann):

C tutorial

parallel programming guide


Books

Computer Simulations using Particles”, R.W. Hockney & J.W. Eastwood

Gravitational N-Body Simulations: Tools and Algorithms”, S. Aarseth

Riemann Solvers and Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics”, E. Toro



(Review) Articles

Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation

Vogelsberger et al., Nature Review Physics (2019)


Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe

Bertschinger, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 36, 599 (1998)


Numerical Simulations in Cosmology I

Klypin, astro-ph archive, part 2, part 3


Cosmological N-body Simulations

Bagla & Padmanabhan, Pramana 49, 161 (1997)


How to simulate the Universe in a Computer

Knebe, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 22, 184 (2005)


Simulation Techniques for Cosmologial Simulations

Dolag et al., Space Science Reviews, special issue "Clusters of galaxies: beyond the thermal view" (2008)


Gravitational N-Body Simulations

Trenti and Hut, review for the Scholarpedia Encyclopedia of Astrophysics (2008)


Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation

Weinberg, in "Origins", eds. J. M. Shull, C. E. Woodward, & H. Thronson (ASP Conference Series)


Cosmological Simulations with TreeSPH

Katz, Weinberg && Hernquist, Astrophys.J.Suppl. 105, 19 (1996)


Computer Simulations using Particles

Hockney and Eastwood, Hilger Bristol UK (1988), ISBN: 0852743920


Gravitational N-body Simulations: Tools and Algorithms

Aarseth, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics (2003), ISBN: 0521432723


Numerical Recipes in C

Press, Flanery, Teukolsky and Vetterling, Cambridge University Press (1992), ISBN: 0521431085



UAM

The official "Guia Docente" (course syllabus) can be found here.


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