I've been looking for an hour now and I can't find a decent web page that would go into the kind of detail that would allow one to implement galactic simulation modeling... I've come across some pretty neat images and videos, but no references to or descriptions of the actual algorithms used to generate those images. It's pretty much the same for fluid dynamics really - can't seem to find a decent web page for research (granted, I don't have the background in physics, so I can't bite through all the math at a glance, but still...). Anybody ever searched for stuff like that and found anything that's actually useful from an implementation's point of view?

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It's pretty much the same for fluid dynamics really - can't seem to find a decent web page for research (granted, I don't have the background in physics, so I can't bite through all the math at a glance, but still...).

Search for "CFD computational fluid dynamics".

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Search for "CFD computational fluid dynamics".

Thanks. Far better to know what I'm actually searching for :)

I haven't still found anything on galactic modeling, though. Hasn't anyone dealt with that?

You may check how was it done in a sequel to the most famous sapce game:
http://www.jongware.com/galaxy1.html