[mesa-users] MESA tutorial question

[Josiah Schwab]

Hi Arjun,

> I am an undergrad learning to use the MESA program. When I go through
> the tutorial (http://mesa.sourceforge.net/starting.html), there is a
> part where the inlist file 'inlist_project' is to be modified to the
> following condition:stop_near_zams = .false.. However, when I modify
> this and save the file and resume the run using ./re, the run stops
> again at the same place due to the "stop because Lnuc_div_L >=
> Lnuc_div_L_zams_limit" condition, despite having changed
> "stop_near_zams" from ".true." to ".false.".
>
> Would anyone be able to offer some help regarding why this is
> occurring? The tutorial says that the run should normally resume from
> timestep 944 to timestep 1050 until the H_1 mass fraction
> conditionxa_central_lower_limit_species(1) = 'h1' is reached.

Are you sure that you edited the inlist_project file in the directory
where you're doing ./re ?

Josiah