Star Formation in Galaxy Evolution: Connecting Numerical Models to Reality: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 43. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Paperback)

Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium.- Introduction.- Composition of the ISM.- Heating and cooling of interstellar gas.- ISM Turbulence.- Formation of molecular clouds.- Star Formation.- Summary.- High performance computing and numerical modelling.- Preamble.- Collisionless N-Body dynamics.- Time Integration techniques.- Gravitationals force calculation.- Basic gas dynamics.- Eularian hydrodynamics.- Smoothed particle hydrodynamics.- Moving-mesh techniques.- Parallelized techniques and current computing Trends.-