[Mesa-users] MESA-Nu-Interactions

[Francis Timmes]

hi liam,

i'm impressed. 

this is meaty piece of work that adds new capability and was completed on a fairly short timescale.
by modifying ~20 source code files i think you've gone well beyond "the basics".

one danger though of modifying /private source code files is that your edits will 
probably not function without modification when a new version of mesa is released.

i'm curious how much of this new capability could be encapsulated within a 
run_star_extras using only the /public interfaces and a few other_* hooks. 
the advantage for MESA-Nu-Interactions is that such a run_star_extras is 
more likely to continue functioning when a new version of mesa is released.

so my challenge to you is to create a MESA-Nu-Interactions 2.0 using only  
the /public interfaces and other_* hooks. if you run into an issue where 
something doesn't seem possible without modifying a /private routine, 
please let us know by posting a message to mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org .

in the interim, i've added a link to your MESA-Nu-Interactions repo on 
mesastar.org in the add-ons section. and again, congratulations on an
impressive body of work.

fxt






> On Aug 28, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Liam Kroll <liam.kroll at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello MESA developers,
> My name is Liam Kroll. I am an undergraduate student at McMaster University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Through a summer internship with my department I have learned how to use the basics of MESA. Previously I had emailed the MESA-userslist about neutrino interactions and received some very helpful information. Since then I have been spending some time trying to develop an addition to MESA (r-10398) star which simulates the charged current neutrino interactions on free nucleons in core collapse supernovae. At this time the addition is functional but relies on user supplied best guesses for the neutrino luminosities and energies. Below is a link to the GitHub repository where all the files and accompanying information can be found. I wanted to make you folks aware of the work in case you were interested. As I am quite new to MESA (and stellar astrophysics simulations in general) I would very much appreciate any feedback or suggestions on how to improve the work I have done so far. I think all the necessary information is included in the repository, but if I missed anything or you have questions, concerns, etc., I'd be happy to address them. I obtained your emails from the MESA marketplace, but if you know of anyone else this addition would interest, feel free to forward this message to them.
> Thank you for all you do,
> Liam
> 
> https://github.com/liam-kroll/MESA-Nu-Interactions