[Mesa-users] Overshooting in massive stars

[Jelena Petrović]

Hi Anne,

Just finishing something up I did with this old version a while ago.

Thanks,
Jelena

  2020-09-01 18:59, Anne Thoul wrote:
> Hi Jelena
> 
> You’ll find examples in the test_suite cases  mentioned in the release
> notes I pointed to you. Look at the massive stars examples.
> You could also look at the controls.default file located in
> star/defaults to see all possibilities.
> 
> By the way, do you have a good reason to use such an « old » version
> of mesa? There have been a number of improvements since then…
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Anne
> 
>> Le 1 sept. 2020 à 18:38, Jelena Petrović <jpetrovic at aob.rs> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Anne,
>> 
>> Thank you for your fast answer!
>> I am using 10398 release, where could I find overshooting info for 
>> that?
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Jelena
>> 
>> 
>> On 2020-09-01 18:32, Anne Thoul wrote:
>>> Hi Jelena
>>> Indeed this is not enough to turn on overshooting in MESA.
>>> The controls to use depend on which version of mesa you are using, as
>>> they have been changed recently.
>>> Please see the latest release notes
>>> https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/2020-March/011168.html
>>> You will find there some examples of controls you can use for
>>> overshooting, and it will point you to some examples in the
>>> test_suite.
>>> I hope this helps
>>> Anne
>>>> Le 1 sept. 2020 à 18:06, Jelena Petrović <jpetrovic at aob.rs> a écrit 
>>>> :
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> I am calculating binary models of massive stars, above 30 Ms, and I 
>>>> am trying to include semiconvection, thermohaline mixing and 
>>>> overshooting.
>>>> This is what I have added in inlist1 and inlist 2:
>>>>     use_Ledoux_criterion = .true.
>>>>     alpha_semiconvection = 0.1
>>>>     thermohaline_coeff = 0.5
>>>>     overshoot_alpha = 0.1
>>>> It seems that overshooting is not added, so I am wondering if I 
>>>> should add something more?
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> Jelena
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