[Mesa-users] Writing to history.data during relax_mass method

[Francis Timmes]

hi eoin,

what is your goal that appears to require a relaxation to write history and profile files?
in several respects a relaxation is usually a quasi, not a proper, evolution ...


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> On Oct 4, 2018, at 1:35 AM, Eoin Farrell <efarrel4 at tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mesa-users,
> 
> I am trying to use the relax mass method to add mass to the envelope of a 15 Msun star. This works fine, however during the relax_mass method it does not write to the history.data file or the profile data files. Once the relax_mass method ends and the normal evolution begins it begins to write to the history and profile files.
> 
> Among other things, I have tried looking through the relax.f90 routine and modifying 
> 
> s% do_history_file = .false.
> s% write_profiles_flag = .false.
> 
> to true (line 3722) but this doesn't seem to work. I am using r10398 MESA. I have attached my inlist files.
> 
> Is there a way to get MESA to record what is happening to the star during the relax_mass method in the history.data and profile data files?
> 
> Cheers,
> Eoin
> 
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