[Mesa-users] Change_E_flag

Bill Paxton paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu
Sun Jun 24 19:18:21 EDT 2018


time for some detective work.   look in star/test_suite from the old version to find cases that use the old control name (use_hydrodynamic_surface_BCs) in their inlists.

then look at the corresponding inlists in the newer version to see what has taken its place.

let us know what you discover.

bill




> On Jun 24, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Subedi, Shiv Kumar via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> !### use_hydrodynamic_surface_BCs
>          
>          ! 1) gradient of compression vanishes at surface
>             ! see Grott, Chernigovski, Glatzel, 2005.
>             ! d_dm(d_dm(r^2*v)) = 0 at surface
>             ! by continuity, this is d_dm(d_dt(1/rho)) = 0 at surface
>             ! finite volume form is
>             ! (1/rho(1) - 1/rho_start(1)) = (1/rho(2) - 1/rho_start(2))
>             ! this BC determines the density for surface cell.
>          
>          ! 2) black body radiation at surface
>             ! L = 4*pi*R^2*boltz_sig*T^4
>             ! this BC determines the temperature for the surface cell given R and L.
>                   
>       use_hydrodynamic_surface_BCs = .false.
> 
> However controls.defaults in mesa-r10108 doesnot have any description of the above variable.

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