[Mesa-users] Test suite in r15140

Rob Farmer robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 14:29:15 UTC 2021


Hi,
So during inlist_remove_env we relax the entropy of the star to make a new
model that looks like a WD.

I would try playing with the timescale_for_relax_composition value and
trying different timescales for the composition change as well as
increasing the value of num_steps_to_relax_composition.

Rob

On Wed, 8 Sept 2021 at 11:15, Kevin Rorke via Mesa-users <
mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:

> Hi Josiah
>
> Thanks for taking the time to respond. I started with the make_co_wd test
> case as that did indeed seem most suitable, and I was running it with the
> original mass default of 3.1 M_sun just to see if I could get it
> to complete successfully. (That was my idea with 1M_pre_ms_to_wd too - just
> trying to get a vanilla test case to complete).
>
> For make_co_wd, I have also set the MESA_RUN_OPTIONAL variable each time,
> as well as removing the max_model_number parameter from all the inlists.
>
> Using 5.7Msun as a starting mass in make_co_wd, the simulation runs fairly
> quickly but still fails shortly after starting the inlist_remove_env inlist.
>
> Regards
> Kevin
>
>
>
> run inlist_remove_env_header
> DATE: 2021-09-08
> TIME: 08:56:52
>  version_number 15140
>  read inlist_common
>  read inlist_remove_env
> load saved model co_core.mod
>
>  net name co_burn_extras.net
>                                       atm_option: T_tau
>  kap_option gs98
>  kap_CO_option gs98_co
>  kap_lowT_option lowT_fa05_gs98
>                                         OMP_NUM_THREADS           8
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>        step    lg_Tmax     Teff     lg_LH      lg_Lnuc     Mass
> H_rich     H_cntr     N_cntr     Y_surf   eta_cntr   zones  retry
>    lg_dt_yr    lg_Tcntr    lg_R     lg_L3a     lg_Lneu     lg_Mdot
> He_core    He_cntr    O_cntr     Z_surf   gam_cntr   iters
>      age_yr    lg_Dcntr    lg_L     lg_LZ      lg_Lphoto   lg_Dsurf
> C_core     C_cntr     Ne_cntr    Si_cntr  v_div_cs       dt_limit
>
> __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>  retry: get_T_tau -- L <= 0     218
>                            1st model retry log10(dt/yr)
> 1.9433655775313161D+00
>         218   8.646679   7269.409  -8.732820   4.275459   5.628404
> 4.705068   0.000000   0.000000   0.304024  23.352630   1245      1
>    1.943366   8.308654   2.167485   4.108631   3.720191 -99.000000
> 0.923336   0.000000   0.664657   0.020108   4.610459     11
>  8.2747E+07   6.819880   4.735661   3.779196 -38.053989 -10.558169
> 0.883737   0.309484   0.001943   0.003286  0.000E+00         retry
>                                rel_E_err    2.2416142672395751D-12
>                        log_rel_run_E_err       -8.2444592886860644
>
>  change to "basic.net"
>  number of species           8
>  change to "co_burn_extras.net"
>  number of species          11
>  relax_composition: num_steps_to_use         100
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 1.3826074011976910D-01    2.2159478300766062D-03
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 1.3822111582803542D-01    4.4318956601532124D-03
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 1.3281973451293563D-01    8.8637913203064248D-03
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 1.1312397138470173D-01    1.7727582640612850D-02
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 9.4249900020676028D-02    3.1846390173839244D-02
>           5   7.156510   6966.155 -99.000000 -99.000000   0.924409
> 0.924409   0.654958   0.001289   0.285044  -1.719124    615      0
>    3.003956   7.156510  -0.104093 -99.000000 -99.000000 -99.000000
> 0.000000   0.262572   0.051097   0.020004   0.094109      4
>  2.0624E+03   1.954317   0.118481 -99.000000 -99.000000  -7.201780
> 0.000000   0.022646   0.001845   0.000777  0.000E+00    varcontrol
>
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 8.4894182615377151D-02    4.3355288974895476D-02
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 7.9115082996726496D-02    4.5243692147515516D-02
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 7.4287188689476327D-02    4.4701683644593947D-02
>                        avg remaining difference, lambda
> 6.9790573601704264D-02    4.7165367034079628D-02
> DATE: 2021-09-08
> TIME: 08:57:03
>
> ******************************************************************
> failed to create co_wd.mod when running inlist_remove_env_header
> ******************************************************************
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:00 PM Josiah Schwab <jwschwab at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> I'm trying to create a model of a ~0.9M white dwarf for further use in a
>>> binary simulation, and I can't find a test case in the test suite that will
>>> behave for the entire duration and produce a suitable saved model. Ideally
>>> I'd like to be able use something like 1M_pre_ms_to_wd or make_co_wd.
>>>
>>
>> make_co_wd is likely to be the most suitable test case for doing this.
>> (A ~= 0.9 Msun WD descends from a ~= 5-7 Msun star, so is quite different
>> from the 1Msun evolution.)
>>
>> I'm using MESA release r15140, and I've made the necessary adjustments to
>>> the paths and the controls so that the test doesn't end prematurely. Other
>>> than that, I've left everything as is, including the initial masses. But
>>> the cases never run to completion - for example, the 1M_pre_ms_to_wd case
>>> only ever gets as far as the inlist_to_end_agb inlist, and behaves rather
>>> pathologically during that too.
>>>
>>
>> I'm confused about your statement that you don't change the initial
>> mass.  That is the critical thing to produce a more massive WD.
>>
>> Are you running all the parts of the test?  In r15140, this required
>> setting the environment variable MESA_RUN_OPTIONAL (or editing the rn file
>> so that all segments are executed).
>>
>> Is there something fundamental that I'm not doing correctly? Are all
>>> these test cases meant to run more or less out of the box in this release
>>> of MESA?
>>>
>>
>> The test cases are checked to run to completion out of the box exactly as
>> is.  Ideally, the test cases would be robust to small changes in the
>> parameters, but that is not always the case.
>>
>> A design goal for make_co_wd is that it works for a range of masses.  I
>> know I have run models with ZAMS masses ~6Msun in that test case, though
>> I'm not certain it was in r15140.
>>
>> I suggest you try editing the initial mass in make_co_wd (see
>> inlist_common), running the whole thing (doing MESA_RUN_OPTIONAL=t ./rn)
>> report back on how that goes.
>>
>> Josiah
>>
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