[Mesa-users] taking very small steps during accretion

[Wolf, William M]

You can still do that. You just need to relax the value of mass_change over many time steps (which can be short) rather than turning it on instantaneously. Once the new value of mass_change is achieved, it can remain at the high value indefinitely. It’s the process of getting from one value of mass_change to another that requires the relaxation process.

For instance, you might relax the value of mass_change slowly over 100 years of evolution, and then leave it on at the new constant high rate for 100,000 more years of evolution.

Regards,

Bill Wolf
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Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] taking very small steps during accretion

Thanks for the tip!
But sir I wanted to study long term evolution of steady buring of helium during accretion on to WD i.e accretion with fixed rate. Also some people have done this with such high accretion rates.


On Tue, 17 Aug, 2021, 02:37 Wolf, William M, <WOLFWM at uwec.edu<mailto:WOLFWM at uwec.edu>> wrote:

Hi Harish,



It looks like in your inlist, you have mass_change = 1.5d6. I advise that instead of just turning on the mass change full blast, you ramp it over time. In particular, I’d look at the relax_mass_change controls, which let you change the value of mass_change over time.



However, with such a high accretion rate, you might have to do this in steps, as this control increases the accretion rate linearly. That is, if you ramp things up from 0 to 1.5d-6 over 100 timesteps, the very first timestep will abruptly turn on accretion at 1.5d-8 Msun/yr, which may also be too fast. Perhaps first adjust it to 1d-8, save a model, and then adjust it again to your final accretion rate. If the model you are loading was already accreting matter, you may be able to be more aggressive and do this in one relaxation.



Good luck!



Regards,



Bill Wolf



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Subject: [Mesa-users] taking very small steps during accretion

Respected sir,



I am performing a simulation of long term evolution of WD accreting matter with accretion rate 1d-6 on my laptop with 4 threads and 16 GB ram. It is taking very small time steps and to increase time steps I have done many things like change mesh_coeff, var_control but I have failed to increase the time steps and I have run it more than 3-4 days. I wanted to achieve the Chandrasekhar limit of WD but it looks very different with this time step . because it will take 20 to 25 days to achieve ch mass limit. Here I am sharing an inlist file and TRHO plot.



kindly help me where am i wrong. and how can i achieve the target.



Thanking you



with regards

Harish kumar

research scholar
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