Physics 329: Particle Simulations
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matt@infeld.ph.utexas.edu
- General Reference
- Computer Simulation Using Particles,
R. W. Hockney and J. W. Eastwood, IOP Publishing, (1988)
- Source code covered in class can be found on
the phy329 account on einstein in
~phy329/part/ex1
- Lecture 1 (Nov 4)
- Sample output illustrating
use of some utility commands: dvmesh, nf and
paste, which be useful for doing certain homework problems.
- Lecture 3 (Nov 13)
- nbody.f: Solves
gravitational n-body problem using second-order finite difference
techniques, and constant global time step.
Sample output on SGIs.
PS Plot of particle traces
for evolution of equal-mass binary in circular orbit
(about 1/3 of an orbit).
Initial data for binary
orbit.
- Supplementary Material (Nov 20)