[Mesa-users] inlist for ~2Ms star terminating on the TP-AGB, mesa v10398

Warrick Ball W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk
Wed Sep 5 16:17:35 EDT 2018


Oh, I misunderstood.  Your email had a different inlist attached (when I 
looked on the forum website, anyway) [1].

I'll check in the morning if my run was actually doing something fishy but 
that looks like it should work...

Cheers,
Warrick

[1] https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/attachments/20180905/cbaceb76/attachment-0001.obj

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Warrick Ball
Postdoc, School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk
+44 (0)121 414 4552


On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, amberlauer at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm using an inlist created exactly to mimic your minimal inlist (see below), with some file saving settings. Which SDK are you using? I and some
> of my colleagues are experiencing the same behavior with other models that are known to go through extensive pulses, where it hangs on the second
> pulse. I'm just trying to check all the options. Thanks.
> 
> &star_job
> 
>   ! begin with a pre-main sequence model
>     create_pre_main_sequence_model = .true.
> 
>   ! save a model at the end of the run
>     save_model_when_terminate = .true.
>     save_model_filename = 'TP_AGB.mod'
> 
>   ! display on-screen plots
>     pgstar_flag = .true.
> 
> / !end of star_job namelist
> 
> 
> &controls
> 
>   ! starting specifications
>     initial_mass = 1.5 ! in Msun units
> 
>     max_model_number=50000   
> 
> 
> / ! end of controls namelist
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:56 PM Warrick Ball <W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>       Hi Amber,
>
>       In my run, the thermal pulses get started around model number 21000.  I
>       killed the run at model number 107063, which is the point by which I
>       counted 34ish thermal pulses.
>
>       This isn't really my area: I seldom evolve models much past the RGB bump,
>       let alone beyond helium ignition.  I don't know which of the extra
>       controls might be holding you up!  That said, I'm not used to the rotation
>       controls but it looks to me like you're creating a 0.98 Msun star
>       and setting the rotation rate to 204.8 km/s.  Is that not a bit quick?  I
>       might be misinterpreting things.
>
>       Cheers,
>       Warrick
> 
>
>       ------------
>       Warrick Ball
>       Postdoc, School of Physics and Astronomy
>       University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
>       W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk
>       +44 (0)121 414 4552
> 
>
>       On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, amberlauer at gmail.com wrote:
>
>       > Hey Warrick, just a quick question about your minimal inlist_project.
>       >
>       > Can you give me a rough idea how far you ran it before you reached 34 thermal pulses?
>       >
>       > I ran the attached inlist, modeled after yours, and at 2.98e9 yrs, 50K models, and a log L/L=~4, log Teff=!~3.6 it is still hung on
>       the second
>       > pulse. FYI it stays roughly at that position for about 30
>       > k models, see attached images. I'm running v 10398, sdk from 1/18.  Thanks
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > grid1_020000.png grid1_030000.png
>       > grid1_020000.png
>       >
>       >
>       > grid1_050000.png
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:17 AM Warrick Ball via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>       >       Hi,
>       >
>       >       I realise this is basically resolved but the question piqued my curiosity.
>       >       In my relatively-limited experience of modelling post-RGB stars, I thought
>       >       low-mass MESA models usually started going through the TP-AGB without any
>       >       special input.  So I spun up a default run in r10398 with the following
>       >       almost trivial `inlist_project`:
>       >
>       >
>       >       &star_job
>       >            create_pre_main_sequence_model = .true.
>       >       / !end of star_job namelist
>       >
>       >
>       >       &controls
>       >            initial_mass = 1.5 ! in Msun units
>       >       / ! end of controls namelist
>       >
>       >
>       >       Sure, it's slow, but I left it running overnight and after 18 hours on 2
>       >       cores I count 34 thermal pulses.
>       >
>       >       Cheers,
>       >       Warrick
>       >
>       >
>       >       ------------
>       >       Warrick Ball
>       >       Postdoc, School of Physics and Astronomy
>       >       University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
>       >       wball at bison.ph.bham.ac.uk
>       >       +44 (0)121 414 4552
>       >
>       >       On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org wrote:
>       >
>       >       > Hi all,
>       >       > Would anyone be able to point me to an inlist which generates a TP-AGB star (terminating during the thermal pulsations) that
>       runs
>       >       with MESA v 10398? I had success with the attached inlist ('inlist_tashibu_2017a') used by Tashibu et al (2017) in mesa
>       version 8118,
>       >       but it produces a number of parameter name and convergence issues in v10398. I have guessed at the appropriate changes when
>       MESA
>       >       points out a naming conflict, but have thus far failed to produce a converged model. One of my attempted adjusted inlists is
>       attached
>       >       as 'inlist_tashibu_editing_attempt'
>       >       >
>       >       > At the moment, I am not so interested in diagnosing why Tashibu's exact physical prescription no longer works, I would just
>       like to
>       >       be able to run a generic TP-AGB model *without* using one of MESA's pre-built prems models to start.
>       >       >
>       >       > Any insight is greatly appreciated,
>       >       >
>       >       >
>       >       > Meridith Joyce
>       >       > Ph.D. Candidate, Wilder Lab
>       >       > Department of Physics and Astronomy
>       >       > Dartmouth College
>       >       >
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>       >
>       >
>       > --
>       > Amber Lauer
>       > Postdoctoral Researcher
>       > Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab
>       > Duke University
>       > amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu
>       >
>       >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Amber Lauer
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab
> Duke University
> amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu
> 
>


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