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This paper investigates the dynamical evolution of embedded stellar clustersfrom the protocluster stage, through the embedded star-forming phase, and outto ages of 10 Myr -- after the gas has been removed from the cluster. Therelevant dynamical properties of young stellar clusters are explored over awide range of possible star formation environments using N-body simulations.Many realizations of equivalent initial conditions are used to produce robuststatistical descriptions of cluster evolution including the cluster boundfraction, radial probability distributions, as well as the distributions ofclose encounter distances and velocities. These cluster properties arepresented as a function of parameters describing the initial configuration ofthe cluster, including the initial cluster membership N, initial stellarvelocities, cluster radii, star formation efficiency, embedding gas dispersaltime, and the degree of primordial mass segregation. The results of thisparameter space survey, which includes about 25,000 simulations, provide astatistical description of cluster evolution as a function of the initialconditions. We also present a compilation of the FUV radiation fields providedby these same cluster environments. The output distributions from this studycan be combined with other calculations, such as disk photoevaporation modelsand planetary scattering cross sections, to ascertain the effects of thecluster environment on the processes involved in planet formation.

Dynamical Evolution of Young Embedded Clusters: A Parameter Space Survey