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Hydrodynamic Simulations of Galaxy Formation

1996/04/15 by Giuseppe Tormen, G. Tormen, Tormen, Giuseppe
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9604081

uuencoded gzipped latex file, 8 pages with 2 figures. Invited talk to appear in the Proceedings of the XXXIst Rencontres de Moriond "Dark Matter in Cosmology, Quantum Measurements, Experimental Gravitation" held in Les Arcs, January 1996. Editions Frontieres

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Abstract

This review is a short introduction to numerical hydrodynamics in a cosmological context, intended for the non specialist. The main processes relevant to galaxy formation are first presented. The fluid equations are then introduced, and their implementation in numerical codes by Eulerian grid based methods and by Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics is sketched. As an application, I finally show some results from an SPH simulation of a galaxy cluster.

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