The Sticky Geometry of the Cosmic Web

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In this video we highlight the application of Computational Geometry to our understanding of the formation and dynamics of the Cosmic Web.

• The emergence of this intricate and pervasive weblike structure of the Universe on Megaparsec scales can be approximated by a well-known equation from fluid mechanics, the Burgers' equation.
• The solution to this equation can be obtained from a geometrical formalism.
• We have extended and improved this method by invoking weighted Delaunay and Voronoi tessellations.