[Mesa-users] wd_diffusion doesn't work?

[Zhang, Zhaoxi M. (Michael)]

Hello everyone,


In MESA 10000, I ran wd_diffusion in the test suites.  It worked, but its timesteps were almost 100 million years, which I thought was far higher than the diffusion timescale.    So I decreased the timesteps to see how the elements diffuse initially:


max_years_for_timestep = 1d3


and the test stopped working.  It struggles to converge, and fails with:


stopping because of problems dt < min_timestep_limit
terminated evolution: cannot find acceptable model

Is it expected behaviour for this test to fail due to smaller timesteps?  Why would having a smaller timestep create convergence problems?



Cheers,


Michael
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