[mesa-users] L>L_edd

[Tomer Shacham]

Hi Bill,
I've been digging through MESA for weeks, just hoping maybe someone,
somewhere has encountered the same problem...
Best,
Tomer

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Tomer Shacham


High Energy Physics Group
Institute     of     Physics
The  Hebrew  University
Jerusalem,   Israel  91904



On 4 May 2014 21:48, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:

>
> On May 4, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Tomer Shacham wrote:
>
> > Hi David,
> > I agree that the equilibrium is not static but rather steady state, and
> I do indeed have mass loss, which starts above the mentioned region. (BTW,
> I have the velocity variable disabled.) The question is how is it possible
> that MESA spits out a stellar structure without pressure inversion and
> L_rad>L_edd...
>
> Hi Tomer,
>
> In my experience, speculation about what might be happening inside a
> complex system like mesa/star is a waste of time.
>
> You have to go look inside by doing the hard work of making plots,
> following the clues, and finding the problem in the code.
>
> It is often (usually!) a coding problem or a numerical problem rather than
> anything to do with physics -- discussion of the physics is irrelevant in
> such cases.
>
> If you are willing to do the digging, great!   Let us know what you find.
>
> If not, you can send all of the necessary details to reproduce the problem
> and with luck someone else will do the hard work for you.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>
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