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• Title:Numerical relativity : solving Einstein's equations on the computer / Thomas W. Baumgarte and Stuart L. Shapiro.
  
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• Author/Creator:Baumgarte, Thomas W.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Shapiro, Stuart L. (Stuart Louis), 1947-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC173.6 .B38 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Overdue - Due on 05-17-2024
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:General relativity (Physics)
  Einstein field equations.
  Numerical calculations.
  
• Description:xviii, 698 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-683) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780521514071 (hbk.)
  052151407X (hbk.)
  
• 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.