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Numerical Experiments in Collisionless Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. H. Miller
R. H. Miller*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Gravitational n-body calculations handling 105 particles have become routine in the last three or four years. The plasma physicists have also run calculations with comparable numbers of particles – you will hear of these from Dawson this afternoon. In the stellar dynamics area, two groups have been making these calculations – our own group with Kevin Prendergast and William Quirk, and the competition, the group that formed when Roger Hockney and Frank Hohl merged (and later parted ways). Our calculation is described in Miller and Prendergast (1968); theirs is best described by Hohl and Hockney (1969), and some very thorough discussions of computational speed of force calculations by Hockney (1970).

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Research Article
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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 10: Gravitational N-Body Problem , November 1971, pp. 73 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971

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