Jets From Young Stars V

High Performance Computing and Applications

José Gracia, Fabio De Colle, Turlough Downes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 227 Seiten

2012 | 2010
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-26130-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This volume is a collection of the lectures from the fifth and final school of the JETSET network, "Jets From Young Stars V: High Performance Computing in Astrophysics." It presents state-of-the-art methods and offers interesting new insights to researchers.

Studying the complex physical systems of stellar jets necessitates the incorporation of nonlinear effects which occur on a wide variety of length and timescales. One of the primary methods used to study the physics of jets is numerical simulations that apply high performance computing techniques. Such techniques are also required for analysing the huge modern astrophysical datasets.

This book examines those computing techniques. It is a collection of the lectures from the fifth and final school of the JETSET network, "Jets From Young Stars V: High Performance Computing in Astrophysics." It begins with an introduction to parallel programming techniques, with an emphasis on Message Passing Interface (MPI), before it goes on to review grid technology techniques and offer a practical introduction to Virtual Observatory. The second half of the book, then, is devoted to applications of high performance computing techniques, including 3D radiation transfer, to jet and star formation processes.

Aimed at graduate students in astrophysics, this book presents state-of-the-art methods, thereby offering interesting new insights to researchers in the field.

Preface.- Introduction to Message Passing Interface (MPI).- An Introduction to Grid Computing Using EGEE.- Astro-Grid and the Virtual Observatory.- 3D Continuum Radiative Transfer.- Large-scale Jet Simulations.- Modeling Accretion and Ejection Phenomena Around Young Stars: a Numerical Perspective.- Jet Stability: a Computational Survey.- Jets and Outflows From Collapsing Objects.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.3.2012
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo	XI, 227 p. 88 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
Schlagworte	Accretion • accretion-ejection • astro grid • astrophysics • Data Analysis • grid computing • High-Performance Computing • message passing interface • Relativistic jet • Star • Stellar • Stellar Jets • virtual observatory
ISBN-10	3-642-26130-2 / 3642261302
ISBN-13	978-3-642-26130-5 / 9783642261305
Zustand	Neuware