%0 Journal Article %T Supercomputer Simulations of Disk Galaxies %A Evgeny Griv %A Michael Gedalin %A Edward Liverts %A David Eichler %A Yehoshua Kimhi %J Physics %D 2000 %I arXiv %R 10.1080/10556790108208204 %X The time evolution of models for an isolated disk of highly flattened galaxies of stars is investigated by direct integration of the Newtonian equations of motion of N=30,000 identical stars over a time span of many galactic rotations. Certain astronomical implications of the simulations to actual disk-shaped (i.e. rapidly rotating) galaxies are explored as well. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012177v1