[mesa-users] nova outburst

[chenhl]

Dear all,

I am trying to use MESA to construct multicycle nova outburst.

First, I made a naked CO WD without H/He shell on its
surface. Then I used wd2 test suite case and the naked WD model to simulate
the nova outburst. But the code stop running after several hundred models.
Because the timestep in the calculation is becoming smaller and smaller. At this
point, the WD does not accrete enough mass to ignite the H shell.
I have tried to use different naked WD models and some control parameters,
but it still doesn't work.

In the mailing list archives, there is a similar question but without answers.
 https://sourceforge.net/p/mesa/mailman/message/25662136/

If anyone has experience with this, I would appreciate it if you can give me
some suggestion. Thanks in advance.

Attached are the inlist file, WD model and output information of the
calculation. The MESA version is 4906.

Best wishes,

Hailiang Chen
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