August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
21h 13m
English
Lars Nyland NVIDIA Corporation
Mark Harris NVIDIA Corporation
Jan Prins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
An N-body simulation numerically approximates the evolution of a system of bodies in which each body continuously interacts with every other body. A familiar example is an astrophysical simulation in which each body represents a galaxy or an individual star, and the bodies attract each other through the gravitational force, as in Figure 31-1. N-body simulation arises in many other computational science problems as well. For example, protein folding is studied using N-body simulation to calculate electrostatic and van der Waals forces. Turbulent fluid flow simulation and global ...