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Foil 2 Abstract of Module on Numerical Simulation of the Collision of two Black Holes

From Master Foilset of Numerical Formulation and Solution of Collision 0f two Black Holes CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

This describes the structure of Numerical Relativity as a set of differential equations but it does discuss state of the art solvers involving adaptive meshes
Basic Motivation of General Relativity and its experimental tests
Metric Tensor, its derivatives and Einstein's equations
Initial value formulation and structure of elliptic and hyperbolic equations
Examination of particular finite difference scheme for the Wave equation in three dimensions -- a study to understand large distances issues in solving numerical relativity



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