Computational Models of Galaxies in Kinetic Theory

Presentation Year

2020

College or Department

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

In this research we model the distribution of mass in simulated galaxies by solving the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations. We've expanded our simulations to include multiple species of matter. This allows us to visualize the individual spatial density distributions of, for example, stars and dark matter as well as the
joint gravitational potential. We have developed a library of computational tools to allow us to investigate a number of the physical properties of these galaxies. In future work we will use these tools to compare the characteristics of our model galaxies to those of observed galaxies.

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