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Frontiers in Numerical Relativity

Frontiers in Numerical Relativity

Frontiers in Numerical Relativity

Charles R. Evans
Lee S. Finn
David W. Hobill
June 2011
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9780521115957
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    First published in 1989, this book is comprised of invited contributions from speakers at the international workshop, Frontiers in Numerical Relativity, held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in May 1988. Advances in supercomputer technology and computational algorithms have stimulated rapid progress in attempts to understand, through numerical means, such diverse phenomena as gravitational radiation emission from astrophysical sources, the evolution of inhomogenous cosmologies and its effects on nucleosynthesis, cosmic string interactions, the formation of 'naked singularities' and the cosmic censorship conjecture and the dynamics of black holes. The book should be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the field of general relativity, astrophysics and applied numerical analysis who wish to understand developments in computer studies of general relativity at the time of publication.

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    June 2011
    Paperback
    9780521115957
    450 pages
    244 × 170 × 23 mm
    0.71kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Participants
    • Introduction
    • 1. Supercomputing and numerical relativity: a look at the past, present and future David W. Hobill and Larry L. Smarr
    • 2. Computational relativity in two and three dimensions Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky
    • 3. Slowly moving maximally charged black holes Robert C. Ferrell and Douglas M. Eardley
    • 4. Kepler's third law in general relativity Steven Detweiler
    • 5. Black hole spacetimes: testing numerical relativity David H. Bernstein, David W. Hobill and Larry L. Smarr
    • 6. Three dimensional initial data of numerical relativity Ken-ichi Oohara and Takashi Nakamura
    • 7. Initial data for collisions of black holes and other gravitational miscellany James W. York, Jr.
    • 8. Analytic-numerical matching for gravitational waveform extraction Andrew M. Abrahams
    • 9. Supernovae, gravitational radiation and the quadrupole formula L. S. Finn
    • 10. Gravitational radiation from perturbations of stellar core collapse models Edward Seidel and Thomas Moore
    • 11. General relativistic implicit radiation hydrodynamics in polar sliced space-time Paul J. Schinder
    • 12. General relativistic radiation hydrodynamics in spherically symmetric spacetimes A. Mezzacappa and R. A. Matzner
    • 13. Constraint preserving transport for magnetohydrodynamics John F. Hawley and Charles R. Evans
    • 14. Enforcing the momentum constraints during axisymmetric spacelike simulations Charles R. Evans
    • 15. Experiences with an adaptive mesh refinement algorithm in numerical relativity Matthew W. Choptuik
    • 16. The multigrid technique Gregory B. Cook
    • 17. Finite element methods in numerical relativity P. J. Mann
    • 18. Pseudo-spectral methods applied to gravitational collapse Silvano Bonazzola and Jean-Alain Marck
    • 19. Methods in 3D numerical relativity Takashi Nakamura and Ken-ichi Oohara
    • 20. Nonaxisymmetric rotating gravitational collapse and gravitational radiation Richard F. Stark
    • 21. Nonaxisymmetric neutron star collisions: initial results using smooth particle hydrodynamics Christopher S. Kochanek and Charles R. Evans
    • 22. Relativistic hydrodynamics James R. Wilson and Grant J. Mathews
    • 23. Computational dynamics of U(1) gauge strings: probability of reconnection of cosmic strings Richard A. Matzner
    • 24. Dynamically inhomogenous cosmic nucleosynthesis Hannu Kurki-Suonio
    • 25. Initial value solutions in planar cosmologies Peter Anninos, Joan Centrella and Richard Matzner
    • 26. An algorithmic overview of an Einstein solver Roger Ove
    • 27. A PDE compiler for full-metric numerical relativity Jonathan Thornburg
    • 28. Numerical evolution on null cones R. Gomez and J. Winicour
    • 29. Normal modes coupled to gravitational waves in a relativistic star Yasufumi Kojima
    • 30. Cosmic censorship and numerical relativity Dalia S. Goldwirth, Amos Ori and Tsvi Piran.
      Contributors
    • David W. Hobill, Larry L. Smarr, Stuart L. Shapiro, Saul A. Teukolsky, Robert C. Ferrell, Douglas M. Eardley, Steven Detweiler, David H. Bernstein, Ken-ichi Oohara, Takashi Nakamura, James W. York, Jr., Andrew M. Abrahams, L. S. Finn Edward Seidel, Thomas Moore, Paul J. Schinder, A. Mezzacappa, R. A. Matzner, John F. Hawley, Charles R. Evans, Matthew W. Choptuik, Gregory B. Cook, P. J. Mann, Silvano Bonazzola, Jean-Alain Marck, Richard F. Stark, Christopher S. Kochanek, James R. Wilson, Grant J. Mathews, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Peter Anninos, Joan Centrella, Roger Ove, Jonathan Thornburg, R. Gomez, J. Winicour, Yasufumi Kojima, Dalia S. Goldwirth, Amos Ori, Tsvi Piran

    • Editors
    • Charles R. Evans
    • Lee S. Finn
    • David W. Hobill