[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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