[mesa-users] MESA code Questions!!

[Josiah Schwab]

Hi Ebraheem,

> The other models, I've seen from lanl pulsation codes are using
> Burgers' diffusion treatment as implemented by cox et al.(1989) and
> nuclear reaction rates from Angulo et al.(1999) with correction to the
> N14 rate from FOrmicola et al.(2004)
>
> -I'm trying to mirror these abundance models through MESA by using
> unreleased Opacity tables
>
> does this provide any info?

Sounds like you should learn about how MESA treats diffusion then.

See Section 9 in Paxton et al. (2015): http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03146

Also consult the relevant documentation
http://mesa.sourceforge.net/controls_defaults.html#element_diffusion

Josiah