[Mesa-users] How to detect a radiative core

[Roque Caballero Navarro]

Hi Josiah,

Many thanks for your comments. I'll definitively take a look at report.f90 file.

Kind regards,

Roque

On 3/11/19 4:38 PM, Josiah Schwab wrote:
Hi Roque,

I'm looking a way for detecting when the star develops a radiative core. Among the parameters available in the history_column.list file I couldn't find any which informs about this stage. On the contrary, I have found the following:

mass_conv_core ! (Msun) mass coord of top of convective core.  0 if core is not convective

Is it correct to assume that if this value is 0 the star has radiative core? If that isn't the right way for deriving this condition, I'd highly appreciate any further suggestion.

Yes, that seems like a reasonable approach to me.

If you need more information than "yes/no", you  could get it by iterating through s% mixing_type(k) from the center outwards in your run_star_extras.  You could look at star/private/report.f90 (set_mass_conv_core or set_mass_semiconv_core) for inspiration.

Josiah

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