mesa-users] Massive stars not reaching TPAGB

[Bill Paxton]

Hi Eric,

I ran a 7 Msun case last night to check what I get.
This morning I found that it had stopped after 12272 steps.
Winds had reduced the mass from 7.0 to 2.73 at that time
and there had been several pulses as you see here.
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However at the time it stopped, the value for v_div_csound_surf was -0.143E+06.
That is a bit too fast for hydrostatics!
Looking back in the history a bit, I found that before the infall,
there was a period with extremely large outward velocities.
Look's like it was trying to blow off the envelope in a supersonic wind.

I'll play around with it a bit more to see what happens if we turn on velocity
variables and enable the supersonic wind option.   

Cheers,
Bill

p.s.   here's the inlist I used.  you might want to compare it to yours.

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