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| Day/Lecture | Title | Comment |
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| Monday, 31July | Inside of the GADGET code:
Structure and algorithms used by the code Parallelization approaches Usage, capabilities & limitations | Springel |
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| Tuesday, 1 August | Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics:
Basic formalism, variational derivation Shocks & artificial viscosity Strength & weaknesses of SPH Some science applications | Springel |
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| Wednesday, 2 August | Time integration:
Runge Kutta schemes, implicit and explicit integrators Hamiltonian systems and symplectic integrators Timestep criteria | Springel |
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| Thursday, 3 August | Galaxy merger simulations:
Construction of isolated, dynamically stable galaxies, Jeans equations, etc. Merger hypothesis and the formation of ellipticals Tidal tails, starbursts, AGN fueling | Springel |
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| Friday, 4 August | Miscellaneous simulation techniques:
Version control software (`subversion', `CVS') Making simple images and movies of particle-based simulations Issues of floating point accuracy, IEEE standard, rounding errors, accumulation of rounding errors and how to avoid it Some notes on debugging | Springel |
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