Numerical Relativity: Starting from Scratch - Softcover

Baumgarte, Thomas W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108928250 ISBN 13: 9781108928250

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A pedagogical and accessible introduction to numerical relativity, the key tool to model gravitational waves and black hole mergers.

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Thomas W. Baumgarte is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. His work in numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics has been recognized with prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, the American Physical Society, and the Simons Foundation. Stuart Shapiro and he have previously co-authored the graduate-level text Numerical Relativity: Solving Einstein's Equations on the Computer (Cambridge, 2010).

Stuart L. Shapiro is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a leading scientist in theoretical astrophysics and general relativity and has been awarded numerous prizes and honors for his research and teaching, including Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships, IBM Supercomputing awards, and the Hans A. Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society, where he was elected Fellow. Shapiro has published over 400 research papers and, in addition to his writing with Thomas Baumgarte, he is co-author of the classic text Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects (1983).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1108928250
• ISBN 13: 9781108928250
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien