Stellar Dynamics and Hydrodynamics

Lectures

  • Home
  • Topics
  • Project
  • Lectures
  • Homeworks

Python
C manual
Fortran manual
OpenMP
  • Nbody methods
  • Programming tools
Stellar Dynamics
  • Potentials
  • Potentials of Spherical systems
  • Non sperical potentials
  • Motion is a central force
  • Motion in non-spherical potentials:
    • epicycle approximation,
    • types of orbits, resonances
  • Circular velocity, dynamical time, infall time
  • Virial theorem
  • Two body scattering
  • Dynamical friction
  • Violent relaxation
  • Boltzman equation I, Boltzman equation II

Hydro Dynamics

  • Elements of thermodynamics
  • Equations of hydrodynamics
  • Bernoulli equation and Kelvin circulation theorem: energy and rotation
  • Acoustic waves: heavy sound, Jeans instability
  • Shock waves
  • Instabilities: Toomre and Bar
  • Instabilities: Convection, Kelvin-Helmholtz, thermal
  • Bondi flow, Bondi-Hoyle flow
  • Supernovae explosions

© 2019 Anatoly Klypin