[Mesa-users] Test Suite: 1M_pre_ms_to_wd

[Aaron Dotter]

Hi Erica,

You have max_model_number = 6500 in the inlist.  Try removing this from the
inlist (or set to -1).

Aaron

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 3:08 PM Erica A Sawczynec <ericasaw at utexas.edu>
wrote:

> Hi All!
> I have been tinkering with the 1M_pre_ms_to_wd test suite to try to look
> at the depth of the convection zone boundary as a function of opacity. I
> have an altered version that no longer uses the to_end_wd inlist and I set
> the envelope mass limit so the to_end_agb inlist doesn’t actually go too
> far past the MS turn-off. I want to finely sample the  MS so I tried
> turning on the max_years_for_timestep keyword in the debugging section. I
> set it to something small like 1d5, which feels reasonable for the MS, but
> I’ve noticed whenever I do this, the test suite evolves a 1M_sol star to
> the end of the MS in ~600 Myr (which isn’t possible).
> I thought that the max_years_for_timestep would keep the time to evolve to
> the MS turn-off the same, but increase the sampling of the MS, is that not
> the case? I even tried increasing the mass model number (up to 65000),
> thinking maybe that imposed some sort of restriction on the model, but even
> then the age of the star at the end of the run is way too young. I’ve
> attached my changed inlist below, note that it will “fail” with the "failed
> to create end_agb.mod when running inlist_to_end_agb_header” error, but
> there is still a history.data file where you can look at the results of the
> run.
> I cannot help but feeling I am missing something silly here, but I just
> can’t figure out what it is. Any help is greatly appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Erica
>
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