Simulating the formation of large-scale cosmic structure with particle-grid methods

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 373-406

  Couchman, H M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Fourier methods* Parallel computing; Large scale structure* N body methods

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GRAVITATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COSMOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0032594793     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(99)00165-X     Document Type: Article

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