Contents

• Introduction
• Installation Instructions
• Numerical Methods
  • SPH: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
  • Neighbor Lists
  • The Gravity Solver: an FFT-based Approach
  • Relaxation
  • Artificial Viscosity
  • Gravitational Radiation Reaction
  
  
• Running a Calculation: Initial Routines
  • Automatically Generated Input Files: testinput
  • Single Stars
  • Corotating Binaries
  • Irrotational Binaries
  • Hyperbolic Collisions
  • Restarting From a Previous Run
  
  
• File Input/Output
  • Input Files
  • Output Files
  
  
• Common Block Variables and User-defined Parameters
  • Common Block Parameters in spha.h
  • Other Code Parameters
  • Common Block Variables
  
  
• Subroutines
• References to Cite and Legal Information
  • Gnu General Public License
  
  
• Bibliography
• About this document ...