[Mesa-users] custom rates

[Rob Farmer]

Hi Amber
One way to check things to delete all the rates from the cache folder then
run mesa, then check what rates got written to the folder. If it has a
0.bin then its a custom rate, a 1.bin or 2.bin means its still using the
normal mesa rates.

Rob

On 15 February 2018 at 19:58, Evan Bauer <ebauer at physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Hi Amber,
>
> There’s a handy executable in the rates/test directory called show_rates
> that will process those binary files you’re seeing into plain text columns
> that you can read. Just give it the binary file as an argument and it will
> spit out two columns: the temperature in units of 10^8 K, and the rate.
>
> Cheers,
> Evan
>
> On Feb 15, 2018, at 10:48 AM, amber lauer via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
> Hello friends. I am working on a model that uses custom reaction rates for
> many important reactions, though not all. As such I have specified the
> rate_tables and cache folder in my inlist, with the former including all
> the rate files and the rate_list.txt file.  This has presented a few
> difficulties, and led to the following questions:
>
> How can I confirm that the model is using the rates I provide? Upon
> inspecting the cache folder I see that it is converting these files to
> .bin. What format is that, other than binary? Is there a way to see the
> contents?
>
> ​For weak rates, I see that according to  file in the method is similar to
> the combination of rate_list.txt and rate files, but the weak rate files
> are expected to be in hdf5(hdfs?) rather than .txt format?
>
> ​Also for weak rates, I see that there is also the file ​weak_info.list
> which contains slightly different info, the half life and the quantity Qneu
> (the neutrino energy?). Can someone talk about the difference between that
> file (other than the obvious) and the weak rates tables (similar in format
> to weakreactions.tables)? Also, the info in weakreactions.tables appears to
> conform to the same data set as described in weak_rate_list.txt, but is
> not, to my knowledge, in hdf5 format.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Amber Lauer
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Triangle University Nuclear Lab
> Duke University
> amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu <amber.lauer at duke.edu>
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