[Mesa-users] Difficulty producing models using example_make_pre_ccsn inlists

[Jake Nicoll]

Thank you for the feedback. I will try to implement the suggestions.

Cheers,
Jake

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From: Jared Goldberg <jagoldberg18 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2020 3:22 PM
To: Jake Nicoll <jwnicoll at outlook.com>
Cc: mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>
Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] Difficulty producing models using example_make_pre_ccsn inlists

Hi Jake,

I've run into the same problems when using revisions 11000 and greater. Unfortunately, there isn't a simple solution in the current MESA revision. Turning off gold tolerances helps, and sometimes reverting to the old EOS options (use_eos_DT2 = .false. and use_eos_ELM = .false.) helps sometimes. If that doesn't work or if you don't want to turn off gold tolerances and/or you don't want to revert back to using 10398 for the progenitor models, I recommend looking at/adopting Frank Timmes's inlist parameters from the mailing list back in February/March 2020 (Ermal's thread, [Mesa-users] Failed to produce type II supernova progenitor with mesa 12115) for your pre-core-collapse models in 12115.

Hope this helps,
~Jared

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jake Nicoll via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org<mailto:mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>> wrote:
Hi all,

I am using the example_make_pre_ccsn and example_ccsn_IIp test suites in the 12778 version of mesa (with the SDK released on March 1, 2020) in order to model SNe light curves. I think I am having more problems than I would expect to have in generating models using the example_make_pre_ccsn test suite inlists.

For example, I ran the example_make_pre_ccsn inlists for a star of 14 solar masses with omega/omega_crit = 0.2, Z=Z_base=0.02, and eta_wind=1.0. The inlist_common where I set these parameters is attached. All other parameters are left as the defaults. I receive the following error while running inlist_to_si_burn:

stopping because of problems dt < min_timestep_limit

I have tried lowering the minimum time step by several orders of magnitude, which does not fix the problem.

However, these input parameters were used by Ricks and Dwarkadas to produce a model for the 1999em SN. They used the 10398 version of the code, so I ran the same input parameters in the 10398 version (using the 10398 SDK released August 22, 2018) and successfully produced a model.

I am not sure what changed in the code that is now causing this dt error. One obvious change is that there was no inlist_to_si_burn in the 10398 version's example_make_pre_ccsn. This inlist saves a model once the core reaches a si28 mass fraction of 0.4. (I think) I should expect this mass fraction to be achieved by a star with the initial mass I am considering, so I am not sure why this inlist fails to produce a model.

Best,
-Jake Nicoll
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