Dynamics

Galaxy dynamics and fluid dynamics.

Textbooks

• Dynamics and Astrophysics of Galaxies by Jo Bovy
• Astrophysical Processes by Jeremy Heyl (part of the Open Astrophysics Bookshelf)
• Introduction to Computational Astrophysical Hydrodynamcis by Michael Zingale (part of the Open Astrophysics Bookshelf)
• Celestial Mechanics by Jeremy Tatum

Tutorials + Notebooks

• Jeremy Bailin’s Galaxy Dynamics Experiments notebooks from AY 630 at the University of Alabama

Lecture Slides + Materials

• Graduate Dynamics of Collisionless Systems from the 2005 ETH Zurich Summer Semester by Frank van den Bosch
• Yale’s graduate ASTR 595: Astrophysical Flows by Frank van den Bosch
• Yale’s graduate ASTR 501: Dynamics of Many-Bodied Systems by Frank van den Bosch
• Graduate Numerical Hydrodynamics by Frank van den Bosch
• Materials from the 2023 CCA Fluid Dynamics Summer School
• Hydrodynamics lecture notes from the University of Maryland’s ASTR 670: The ISM and Gas Dynamics by Benedikt Diemer
• Course notes from the University of Zurich’s advanced undergraduate/master’s-level Theoretical Astrophysics by Romain Teyssier
• Direct download of Romain Teyssier’s course notes on Continuum Mechanics

Visualizations

• @ThreeBodyBot on Twitter, @ThreeBodyBot@botsin.space on Mastodon
• Various N-body dynamics visualizations by Robert Vanderbei
• Interactive Poincaré section visualizer by Leo Stein

Other Resources

• GravHopper by Jeremy Bailin