[mesa-users] mesa public release 7624

[Willie Strickland]

Congratulations to all!

Willie


> On Jun 3, 2015, at 7:29 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
> here is a new release to go with the new about-to-be-submitted-and-posted instrument paper covering binaries, pulsations, explosions, and many other wonderful things. ;D
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> Rich -- GYRE
> 
> Updated to gyre 4.1
> 
> Pablo -- binary
> 
> use a stricter limit for orbital angular momentum control
> include check of jdot_gr to test suite
> do not evolve binary parameters if the evolve_step for the stars failed
> terminate if initial models are overflowing
> do not extrapolate outside of q range for Ritter and Kolb schemes (suggested by Dean Townsley)
> also do not extrapolate fits for Ritter in eccentric orbits
> set the minimum fr timestep as an option
> add other_tsync
> add other_accreted_material_j
> 
> Josiah -- weak rates
> 
> Fix bug in weak derivatives
> The weak reaction derivatives with respect to lnT were all missing a
> factor of the level occupation probabilities.  It was in my notes...
> 
> Remove obsolete boundary_mass variables
> In a previous MESA release, naming conventions changed such that
>   h1_boundary_mass => he_core_mass
>   he4_boundary_mass => c_core mass
> but the defaults file was not fully updated.
> Reported-By: Stephane Blondin
> 
> Fix special weak rate controls
> When the special weak rates code was merged into MESA, one hunk of a
> patch was rejected and not properly applied.  This caused the flags
>     use_special_weak_rates
>     ion_coulomb_corrections
>     electron_coulomb_corrections
> in the star_job namelist to have no effect.  This patch restores that
> missing hunk.
> 
> miscellaneous
> 
> add star test cases "envelope_shock" and "ccsn" (core collapse super nova)
> fix rates/private/ratlib.f90 to use reaclib_min_T9 in all places where had limit 1d-2
> new control jina_reaclib_min_T9 in &star_controls
> change diffusion_use_pure_coulomb to diffusion_use_iben_macdonald -- requested by Evan Bauer
> replace use_time_centering by use_energy_conservation_form
> add min_dq_for_xa to limit remeshing caused by abundance discontinuities
> modify smooth_outer_xa to specify fraction of star to be mixed instead of fixed size in solar masses
> add eps_grav_dt_use_start_values for Chris M
> do not do element diffusion while relaxing
> change eps_grav when using lnS to get prev lnS from before diffusion
> add option to limit absolute changes in gradT_excess
> Use crlibm functions in Itoh coulomb corrections
> add other_before_struct_burn_mix for Tassos
> Updated surface_effects test case
> Fixed bugs in Ball & Gizon correction code
> replace wd_mg_ecapture test case by wd_aic and 8.8M_urca
> 
> 
> 
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