Numerical studies of galaxy formation using special purpose hardware
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I review recent progress in numerically simulating the formation and evolution of galaxies in hierarchically clustering universes. Special emphasis is given to results based on high-resolution gas dynamical simulations using the N-body hardware integrator GRAPE. Applications address the origin of the spin of disk galaxies, the structure and kinematics of damped Lyman-alpha systems, and the origin of galaxy morphology and of galaxy scaling laws.
12 pages, invited review presented at the IAU Symposium 208 "Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations", Tokyo, July 2001
12 pages, invited review presented at the IAU Symposium 208 "Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations", Tokyo, July 2001