Dynamics of Interactions and Mergers

Numerical Stellar and Gas Dynamics

• The Collisionless Boltzmann Equation
• Monte Carlo Methods and N-Body Simulations
• Simulating the Stellar Component of a Galaxy
• Simulating the Gas Component of a Galaxy

The Physics and Mechanics of Mergers

• Phases of the Interstellar Medium
• Tidal Drag and Orbit Decay
• Relaxation Effects
• Phase Mixing
• Merger Remants

Galaxy Formation

• Mergers in the Hubble Deep Field

Links

• Dynamics of Interacting Galaxies (Joshua Barnes & Lars Hernquist, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1992)

N-Body Simulations of the Antennae