Hydrodynamical simulations of cosmological structure formation

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The simulations shown here are described in the paper:

The history of star formation in a LCDM universe
Springel V., Hernquist L., 2003, MNRAS, 339, 312.



Volume rendering (gas and stars):








Gasdynamical simulations on a number of different length-scales:

Z4_019_temp
temp-map
r4
q4
d4
g4

Zoom onto individual galaxies at redshift z=3: