[Mesa-users] Regarding MESA tutorial

[Anne Thoul]

Dear Asit,

This information is also available in the new documentation  pages of the latest release:
https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/ <https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/>
See in particular https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/quickstart.html <https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/quickstart.html>

If you are starting to use MESA, I recommend that you install the latest release 15140, as it contains a number of backwards-incompatible changes, including a significant reorganization of some of the options.

Anne

> Le 10 déc. 2020 à 18:28, Anne Thoul <anne.thoul at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Dear Asit,
> 
> If you are new to MESA, you might learn a lot by going through the following steps.
> For how to build inlists, please see point 2: Using MESA.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Anne
> 
> Where to find information to install and use MESA
> 
> 1. Installation:
> 
> The very first thing to do is to follow exactly the steps explained on the MESA web site
> 
> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/prereqs.html <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/prereqs.html>
> 
> One of the first steps involves downloading and installing the mesasdk, maintained by Rich Townsend:
> http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk <http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk>
> Rich’s web page includes a Troubleshooting and FAQ sections for the mesasdk.
> 
> In case of problem installing MESA, look at the pages for troubleshooting 
> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html>
> and the FAQ
> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/faq.html <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/faq.html>
> 
> IF you cannot find the answer to your problems in these pages, search the mesa-users list archive. Others may have run into the same problem.
> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html#search-the-mesa-users-mailing-list-archive <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html#search-the-mesa-users-mailing-list-archive>
> 
> If you still cannot find the answer to your installation problem, post your question to the mesa-users list.
> When you do that, please remember to follow the clear procedure detailed here:
> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html#search-the-mesa-users-mailing-list-archive <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/troubleshooting.html#search-the-mesa-users-mailing-list-archive>
> This tells you which information you need to provide for people to be able to help you.
> 
> 2. Using MESA
> 
> MESA is built to allow users to run experiments in stellar evolution. As such, a lot of freedom is given to the users in terms of choosing parameters and their values. This can be overwhelming when using MESA for the first time.
> 
> The first step is to go through the example detailed here:
> http://mesa.sourceforge.net/starting.html <http://mesa.sourceforge.net/starting.html>
> 
> There are also more examples located in the subdirectory
> $MESA_DIR/star/test_suite
> There you will find examples closer to the type of star you want to study.
> You can use those as starting points for your inlists, and slowly modify them to fit your needs.
> Please beware that the examples in the test_suite are not necessarily at the correct resolution, since they need to run fast, and you may need to adjust the resolution to have results that are converged.
> 
> The MESA developers are currently working on improving the documentation for those test_suite cases. Coming soon…
> 
> Another source of examples is the MESA Marketplace:
> http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/ <http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/>
> There you will find 
> inlists used in published papers
> MESA Summer School material
> Community written guidance on using MESA
> Etc…
> Finally there is a series of YouTube videos explaining how to use pgstar
> https://www.youtube.com/user/fxtimmes4444/videos <https://www.youtube.com/user/fxtimmes4444/videos>
> 
> 
>> Le 10 déc. 2020 à 18:10, Asit Sen via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mailto:mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> As I am a new MESA user, is there any tutorial to build inlist for a particular project, so that one can get a good grasp on MESA? I know it’s a very naive question but I am little confused on how to use MESA effectively or what are the options available there. Hope to hear from you.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Asit
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