SIMULATIONS OF STRUCTURE FORMATION IN THE UNIVERSE

@article{Bertschinger1998SIMULATIONSOS,
  title={SIMULATIONS OF STRUCTURE FORMATION IN THE UNIVERSE},
  author={Edmund Bertschinger},
  journal={Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={1998},
  volume={36},
  pages={599-654}
}
  • E. Bertschinger
  • Published 1 September 1998
  • Physics
  • Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cosmic structure has formed as a result of gravitational amplification of primordial density fluctuations together with the action of other physical processes (adiabatic gas dynamics, radiative cooling, photoionization and recombination, radiative transfer). These complex nonlinear processes, acting over a wide range of length scales (from kiloparsecs to tens of megaparsecs), make this a difficult problem for computation. During the last two decades, significant progress has been made in… 
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