[mesa-users] Turning on rotation near the ZAMS

[Richard Townsend]

On the order of 30-50 km/s, I imagine. And in the inlist I attached, I use omega_crit = 0.25, which should be in excess of 100 km/s. Similar result….

cheers,

Rich

> On Aug 11, 2015, at 12:43 AM, Robert Farmer <rjfarmer at asu.edu> wrote:
> 
> What would 0.1 Omega/Omega_crit in km/s be for a your star? I.e how far off are we?
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Richard Townsend <townsend at astro.wisc.edu <mailto:townsend at astro.wisc.edu>> wrote:
> Hi folks —
> 
> I’m trying to turn rotation on near the ZAMS, by adding the following flags to the &star section of my inlist:
> 
>       near_zams_relax_omega_div_omega_crit = .true.
>       new_omega_div_omega_crit = 0.1
> 
> I then ensure the star evolves as a solid body by adding the following to the &controls section:
> 
>       set_uniform_am_nu_non_rot = .true.
> 
> Unfortunately, I’m not getting the results I expect — during the ZAMS/post-ZAMS evolution, the star remains very slowly rotating, with v_surf_km_s not rising above a km/s or so.
> 
> I’m clearly doing something wrong — can anyone tell me what? Input files attached.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Rich
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