Lecture 18 Discussion of the Final Projects



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Wednesday, March 15, 2006




Black hole physics at galaxy centers

Black holes

Astronomy Picture of the Day web pointer

Black holes at galactic centers

Milky Way (remote view)

Andromeda more pictures dual core (black holes?)

Mice

Review paper

Parallel implementation of Treecode

MPI web pointer

The Gadget-2 software system installed on phcomp.ucsd.edu /software/physics/nemo/src/gadget

Gadget-2 paper

Gadget-2 user guide

Final Projects




20 minutes presentations - Each team designates a speaker

20 minutes discussion with each team after the presentations

Galaxy collision movies

Some technical details:

Choice of resolution storage and rendering issues

Initial setup - Toomre&Toomre model -> full simulation

Similarities and differences from restricted three-body problem

Treecode and GyrfalcON timings and comparisons




Log of gyrfalcON test:

5 10:56 mkdir falco-test

6 10:56 cd falco-test/

7 10:56 mv ../galaxy .

8 10:56 ls

9 10:56 nedit galaxy &

10 10:57 ls

11 11:44 ls

12 11:45 ls

13 11:46 cp galaxy x.tab

14 11:47 gyrfalcON

15 11:48 echo $SHELL

16 11:49 source /software/physics/nemo/nemo_start

17 11:49 env

18 11:49 gyrfalcON

19 11:53 ls

20 11:53 clear

21 11:53 ls

22 11:58 tabtos in=x.tab out=x.snap header=nbody,time block1=mass,pos,vel 23 11:58 ls

24 12:01 gyrfalcON in=x.snap out=xrun.snap tstop=10 Nlev=1 eps=0.01

25 12:03 ls

26 12:04 tsf xrun.snap

27 12:04 ls

28 12:05 snapprint in=xrun.snap options=m,x,y,z,vx,vy,vz header=t > xrun.tab




Some useful pointers:




The Atlas of the Universe web pointer

Galaxy Picture Gallery web pointer

Stars web pointer

Galaxy collisions web pointer




Polar ring galaxies I web pointer

paper on polar ring galaxies

Polar ring galaxies II web pointer