Creating synthetic universes in a computer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1884, 2008, Pages 4381-4392

  Baugh, Carlton M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Cosmology; Dark energy; Dark matter; Galaxy formation

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMOLOGY; MODELS;

DARK ENERGY; DARK MATTER; GALAXY FORMATION; PHYSICAL PROCESSES;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 55849088719     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0192     Document Type: Article

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