[Mesa-users] MESAScript & Inlists

[Bill Wolf]

Hi Logan,

Yes and no, and mostly no.

MesaScript generates inlist files. That's all it does; the inlist files, once created, are just like the ones you might make "by hand".

You can avoid using run_star_extras to change controls on the fly by stringing multiple inlists together in a series of runs like in several test cases like make_co_wd. However, if you need to, say, add a new energy source or a new mass loss mechanism, that cannot be done through inlists, and thus it cannot be done through MesaScript. You must go through run_star_extras.

Most basic applications of MESA don't require run_star_extras, though, so depending on your particular use case, you may be fine just using MesaScript.

Regards,

Bill Wolf


From: Logan Troy DiAdams via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>
Reply: Logan Troy DiAdams <ltdiadams at mta.ca>
Date: May 24, 2019 at 9:46:37 AM
To: Josiah Schwab <jwschwab at ucsc.edu>
Cc: mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>
Subject:  Re: [Mesa-users] MESAScript & Inlists  

Okay great! So if I'm understanding this correctly, with MesaScript you really don't need to make use of MESA's 'run_star_extras' hooks, I only need to work within the one inlist?
From: Josiah Schwab <jwschwab at ucsc.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 1:36 PM
To: Logan Troy DiAdams
Cc: mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org
Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] MESAScript & Inlists
 
Hi Logan,

No, only the file inlist is necessary.  It can then instruct MESA to read other inlists (which is what the default configuration does). The inlist should have 3 sections: star_job, controls, and pgstar.

Josiah
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