[Mesa-users] Overshooting in massive stars

[Anne Thoul]

OK . Don’t hesitate to send a message if you cannot Find the answer to your question after looking at the test suite examples
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Anne

> Le 1 sept. 2020 à 20:39, Jelena Petrović <jpetrovic at aob.rs> a écrit :
> 
> 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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