[mesa-users] MESA for giant planet initial thermal evolution

[Ana-Maria Piso]

Hi,

I am new to MESA, so I apologize if this question has already been answered
somewhere else. I would like to use MESA to model the evolution of a giant
planet embedded in a gas disk -- the standard core accretion calculation,
assuming that the core has a fixed mass. The 'make_planets' test case is
probably a good place to start, but I need to:

(a) fix the outer boundary conditions to constant T and P, which I haven't
seen as an option in the standard MESA controls
(b) include a variable mass accretion rate M_dot = (M_i+1 - M_i) / dt,
where i is the current model.

I'm not sure how to do this / where to start, so any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Best,
Ana

-- 
Ana-Maria Piso
Graduate Student
Harvard University Department of Astronomy
apiso at cfa.harvard.edu
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