mesa-users] Hydro convergence failure at end of main sequence.

Kent Budge kgbudge at lanl.gov
Tue Nov 2 17:25:12 EDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 09:06 -0500, Aaron Dotter wrote:

> It's putting too many zones in around the edge of the core and that's
> causing artificial mixing--so the main sequence never ends.

I find this a bit disturbing. My understanding is that mesa uses
diffusive mix. This should converge as the mesh is refined. What is the
reason for this artificial mixing?

--Kent G. Budge







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