[mesa-users] Fwd: Controls for Solver Tolerance

[Spencer C Wallace]

I never would have guessed, but there does appear to be a non-negligible
amount of burning outside the core. This must be what is driving up mu
outside the convective region.

Thanks for the advice, as always, Bill!

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:

>
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Spencer C Wallace wrote:
>
> What confused me was that the composition is changing outside of the
> convective region
>
>
> Hi Spencer,
>
> Please check your inlist to see if you have turned this off for your tests:
>
>
>             !### smooth_convective_bdy
>
>             ! Apply smoothing to abundances in newly nonconvective regions.
>
>          smooth_convective_bdy = .true.
>
>
> Also, please plot nuclear burning rates in the region just outside of the
> convection zone.
> could mu be changing by low level burning?
>
>
> Let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
>
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