Numerical relativity solving Einstein's equations on the computer
Aimed at students and researchers entering the field, this pedagogical introduction to numerical relativity will also interest scientists seeking a broad survey of its challenges and achievements. Assuming only a basic knowledge of classical general relativity, the book develops the mathematical for...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45457335*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- General relativity preliminaries
- The 3 + 1 decomposition of Einstein's equations
- Constructing initial data
- Choosing coordinates : the lapse and shift
- Matter sources
- Numerical methods
- Locating black hole horizons
- Spherically symmetric spacetimes
- Gravitational waves
- Collapse of collisionless clusters in axisymmetry
- Recasting the evolution equations
- Binary black hole initial data
- Binary black hole evolution
- Rotating stars
- Binary neutron star initial data
- Binary neutron star evolution
- Binary black hole-neutron stars : initial data and evolution.
