[Mesa-users] inlist for ~2Ms star terminating on the TP-AGB, mesa v10398

[Warrick Ball]

Hi,

I realise this is basically resolved but the question piqued my curiosity. 
In my relatively-limited experience of modelling post-RGB stars, I thought 
low-mass MESA models usually started going through the TP-AGB without any 
special input.  So I spun up a default run in r10398 with the following 
almost trivial `inlist_project`:


&star_job
     create_pre_main_sequence_model = .true.
/ !end of star_job namelist


&controls
     initial_mass = 1.5 ! in Msun units
/ ! end of controls namelist


Sure, it's slow, but I left it running overnight and after 18 hours on 2 
cores I count 34 thermal pulses.

Cheers,
Warrick


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Warrick Ball
Postdoc, School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
wball at bison.ph.bham.ac.uk
+44 (0)121 414 4552

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> Would anyone be able to point me to an inlist which generates a TP-AGB star (terminating during the thermal pulsations) that runs with MESA v 10398? I had success with the attached inlist ('inlist_tashibu_2017a') used by Tashibu et al (2017) in mesa version 8118, but it produces a number of parameter name and convergence issues in v10398. I have guessed at the appropriate changes when MESA points out a naming conflict, but have thus far failed to produce a converged model. One of my attempted adjusted inlists is attached as 'inlist_tashibu_editing_attempt'
>
> At the moment, I am not so interested in diagnosing why Tashibu's exact physical prescription no longer works, I would just like to be able to run a generic TP-AGB model *without* using one of MESA's pre-built prems models to start.
>
> Any insight is greatly appreciated,
>
>
> Meridith Joyce
> Ph.D. Candidate, Wilder Lab
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
> Dartmouth College
>