Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation.

by Dr Liang Gao (Durham University, Institute for Computational Cosmology)

Wednesday 31 Oct 2007, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

Abstract: I will firstly explain how to model cosmic structure formation with N-body/Hydro simulation codes in some technical details. Then I will briefly review some current sucessful and unsucessful applications in modeling galaxy formation, clustering. The reference is: Bertschinger, Edmund, "Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe", Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 36, 1998, pp. 599-654, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998ARA%26A..36..599B