[mesa-users] Vink_wind_eta

[Matteo Cantiello]

At low T the Mdot values are mostly derived from observations, with little or no physical modeling available. So "scheme" sounds better to me.
-M


> On Jun 5, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Falk Herwig <fherwig at uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
> “scheme" is good, alternatively, to me these things are “models” - it is a model of mass loss, 
> not a simulation or just fitting of experimental data. instead these formulae
> are most often an observational data guided parameterization of low-order versions
> of the real physics. To me these are mass loss models. 
> 
> F.
> --
> Falk Herwig
> Dept of Physics & Astronomy, U of Victoria
> fherwig at uvic.ca, tel: +1 (250) 721-7743
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jun 5, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 5, 2015, at 11:06 AM, Falk Herwig wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am not sure I like the "recipe" in the parameter names.
>> 
>> how about keeping "scheme" instead?  or do you have an alternative in mind?
>> 
>> -b
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