[mesa-users] Post-processing of mixing regions

[Kevin Moore]

Aha, thanks Bill - that’s exactly what I was looking for! 

I think it makes more sense to have mlt_mixing_type and mixing_type refer to the model at the same part of the time step. They’re both output in profiles by default, and the only thing I’ve wanted both for is to do the exercise I’m doing now - making sure that I understand how mixing regions are altered outside of the MLT module. As long as the documentation points out when these are evaluated, it should be fine.

Just to make sure I understand how gradT works, the value of actual_gradT is set when the MLT module is called so should reflect the actual dlnT/dlnP in the model at the beginning of the time step. The value of gradT is calculated by the MLT module (along with the mixing type), and the model tries to adjust its structure to make the next time step’s actual_gradT equal to gradT. This means that one should compare actual_gradT of time step i to gradT of time step i-1, and they should be close (but not exactly equal) to each other?

-Kevin

On Apr 22, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Willie Strickland <cwskas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the explanation and (at least to me) the understatement.
> 
> Willie
> 
> 
> On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Some of this stuff is just complicated!
> 
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