1 | | Direct N-Body Codes by Sverre J. Aarseth | | 1 |
2 | | Regular Algorithms for the Few-Body Problem by Seppo Mikkola | | 31 |
3 | | Resonance, Chaos and Stability: The Three-Body Problem in Astrophysics by Rosemary A. Mardling | | 59 |
4 | | Fokker-Planck Treatment of Collisional Stellar Dynamics by Marc Freitag | | 97 |
5 | | Monte-Carlo Models of Collisional Stellar Systems by Marc Freitag | | 123 |
6 | | Particle-Mesh Technique and SUPERBOX by Michael Fellhauer | | 159 |
7 | | Dynamical Friction by Michael Fellhauer | | 171 |
8 | | Initial Conditions for Star Clusters by Pavel Kroupa | | 181 |
9 | | Stellar Evolution by Christopher A. Tout | | 261 |
10 | | N-Body Stellar Evolution by Jarrod R. Hurley | | 283 |
11 | | Binary Stars by Christopher A. Tout | | 297 |
12 | | N-Body Binary Evolution by Jarrod R. Hurley | | 321 |
13 | | The Workings of a Stellar Evolution Code by Ross Church | | 333 |
14 | | Realistic N-Body Simulations of Globular Clusters by A. Dougal Mackey | | 347 |
15 | | Parallelization, Special Hardware and Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Direct N-Body Simulations by Rainer Spurzem and Ingo Berentzen and Peter Berczik and David Merritt and Pau Amaro-Seoane and Stefan Harfst and Alessia Gualandris | | 377 |
A | | Educational and N-Body Websites by Francesco Cacelliere and Vicki Johnson and Sverre Aarseth | | 391 |
| | References | | 397 |
| | Index | | 399 |