Numerical Relativity :

Baumgarte, Thomas W.

Numerical Relativity : Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer Thomas W. Baumgarte and Stuart L. Shapiro. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xviii, 698 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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General Relativity (Physics)
Einstein Field Equations.
Numerical Calculations.
Physics

QC173.6 / .B38 2010

530.11B327N



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