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Numerical relativity : solving Einstein's equations on the computer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baumgarte, Thomas W.
Other Authors: Shapiro, Stuart L. (Stuart Louis), 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
General relativity (Physics)
Einstein field equations.
Numerical calculations.
Table of Contents:
  • General relativity preliminaries
  • The 3 + 1 decomposition of Einstein's equations
  • Constructing initial data
  • Choosing coordinates : the lapse and shift
  • Matter sources
  • Numerical methods
  • Locating black hole horizons
  • Spherically symmetric spacetimes
  • Gravitational waves
  • Collapse of collisionless clusters in axisymmetry
  • Recasting the evolution equations
  • Binary black hole initial data
  • Binary black hole evolution
  • Rotating stars
  • Binary neutron star initial data
  • Binary neutron star evolution
  • Binary black hole-neutron stars : initial data and evolution.