B: tot stand brengen van concrete samenwerkingsverbanden
tussen applicatiegericht en funderend onderzoek

As part of our effort to stimulate further development in stellar dynamics, stellar evolution and computational science we developed a software library in which we illustrate a method of combining stellar dynamics with stellar evolution. Though the method is intended for elaborate applications (especially the dynamical evolution of rich star clusters) it is illustrated in the context of three-body scattering, i.e. interactions between a binary star and a field of single stars. We describe the interface between the dynamics and the two independent packages which describe the internal evolution of single stars and binaries. We also give an example application, and introduce a standalone utility for the visual presentation of simulation results. This work is done in collaboration with Prof. D. Heggie (Edinburgh, UK) and Dr. J. Hurley (Monash, Australia). The hybrid software package, called McScatter is available at http://manybody.org/McScatter.html

In addition we developed a software environment for performing binary evolution calculations via a graphical web interface. This work, in collaboration with Prof. S. McMillan (Drexel University in Phyladelphia, USA), can be downloaded at http://carol.wins.uva.nl/$\sim$spz/act/roche/roche.html and binaries van be evolved and the results visualized directly on
http://manybody.org/cgi-bin/starlab/binary_demo.pl