The use of Maple platform for the study of geodisc motion on curved spacetimes

Authors

Dumitru N. Vulcanov, West University of Timisoara
Valentina D. Wheeler, Free University of Berlin

RIS ID

90836

Publication Details

Vulcanov, D. N. & Vulcanov, V. (2006). The use of Maple platform for the study of geodisc motion on curved spacetimes. Eighth International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (pp. 55-62). IEEE Computer Society.

Abstract

The article illustrates the graphical study of geodesic motion on curved space-times (mainly exact solutions of Einstein equations) using the symbolic, numerical and graphical computation facilities of Maple platform. The example of null geodesics on Schwarzschild solution is completely processed. The geodesic curves are plotted directly using DEtools package in Schwarzschild coordinates.