[Mesa-users] Radius of a planet

valletta valletta at physik.uzh.ch
Tue Oct 9 07:09:29 EDT 2018


Hello everyone,

I am currently using Mesa to study the initial stage of the growth of a 
Giant planet. I implemented correctly the subroutine "other_wind" to 
accrete solids and gas, however in codes different from Mesa the radius 
of the planet is usually defined as the Bondi radius, the Hill radius, 
or a combination of the two. In order to compare my preliminary results 
with the ones obtained with other codes I would be interested to modify 
in Mesa the computation of the radius and compare the profile of 
temperature density and pressure that I get. However diving in the code 
I have not understood how the radius of the planet is computed and how 
to modify it. The outer boundary condition that I am using is 
"fixed_Psurf_and_Tsurf"

Thank you for any help

best,
Claudio



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