Statistical-mechanical selection of the shapes of disk galaxies

• 1 February 1991
• journal article
• Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
• Vol. 368, 380-382
• https://doi.org/10.1086/169702

Abstract

Keywords

• STATISTICAL MECHANICS
• PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• MEAN FIELD
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• NUMERICAL INTEGRATION
• ANGULAR MOMENTUM
• COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS
• STEADY STATE
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
• PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION