[Mesa-users] Best ways to improve calculation accuracy?

[Earl Bellinger]

Hi mesa-users,

What are the best ways to improve the accuracy of MESA calculations?

My go-to fixes are to
1. decrease mesh_delta_coeff
2. decrease varcontrol_target
3. set delta_lgTeff_limit and delta_lgL_limit
...but surely there are some more "tricks" people know about.

(My personal motivation: I am playing around with interpolating between
MESA models [all on the main sequence], and I find some unexpectedly large
deviations. Fiddling with the above controls has helped but not totally
solved the problem.)

Best regards,
Earl


*Earl Patrick Bellinger, Ph.D. *
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Stellar Astrophysics Centre
Aarhus University
Web: https://earlbellinger.com
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