[mesa-users] ZAMS rotation models problem

Bill Paxton paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu
Thu Jan 10 19:06:40 EST 2013


Hi Roberto,

Interesting!   Please send inlists etc so that I can reproduce exactly what you are doing.

Thanks,
Bill


On Jan 10, 2013, at 3:20 PM, trobolo dinni wrote:

> Dear MESA users,
> 
> I am working on a series of models of a standard 1Msun star with rotation evolved fom preMS to the He-flash.
> I am adding rotation on the ZAMs and I have to span a range of rotations from omega/omega_crit=0.1 to omega/omega_crit=0.9.
> 
> When I use angular frequencies approximately in the range  0.5 < omega/omega_crit < 0.6 the code get stuck right after rotation is inserted for like 20000 models, with the star bouncing on a small line in the HR diagram. During this time I can see from the data that something is happening to the model, probably the star is trying to stabilize.
> After this phase the evolution continues and reaches the end of the simulation.
> 
> I would like to ask if this is a known MESA behavior and if in this case the physical results are still solid.
> 
> Thanks, 
>                   Roberto 
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