literature
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)
version written for Swinburne Astronomy Online (incl. more figures and written for wider audience)
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)
Cosmological Simulations with TreeSPH
Katz, Weinberg & Hernquist, Astrophys.J.Suppl. 105, 19 (1996)
Large-scale dark matter simulations
Angulo & Hahn, Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, Volume 8, Issue 1, article id.1
Gravitational N-body Simulations: Tools and Algorithms
Aarseth, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics (2003), ISBN: 0521432723
Press, Flanery, Teukolsky and Vetterling, Cambridge University Press (1992), ISBN: 0521431085
YouTube
Cosmological (super)computer simulations
1.5 hour lecture by Prof. Wojciech Hellwing for the 3rd Cosmology School held in Cracoq, Poland in 2017
Structure Finding in Cosmological Simulations: The State of Affairs
20min talk by Prof. Alexander Knebe during Conference on Exascale Computing in Astrophysics (Ascona 2013)
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