2002/01/25 by Matthias Steinmetz, Steinmetz, Matthias
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0201427
12 pages, invited review presented at the IAU Symposium 208 "Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations", Tokyo, July 2001
arxiv created 2002/01/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
I review recent progress in numerically simulating the formation and evolution of galaxies in hierarchically clustering universes. Special emphasis is given to results based on high-resolution gas dynamical simulations using the N-body hardware integrator GRAPE. Applications address the origin of the spin of disk galaxies, the structure and kinematics of damped Lyman-alpha systems, and the origin of galaxy morphology and of galaxy scaling laws.