[mesa-users] Mass-transfer in MESA

[Josiah Schwab]

Hi Hannah,

> However, I'd like to be able to transfer a certain percentage of the
> mass from the primary star to the secondary star. Is this possible?

Have you looked at the mass transfer efficiency controls?

  http://mesa.sourceforge.net/binary_controls_defaults.html#mass_transfer_

See Section 2 of Paxton et al. (2015) for more info.

Hope that helps,
Josiah