[Mesa-users] Li depletion due to thermohaline mixing

Matteo Cantiello matteo.cantiello at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 17:33:40 UTC 2022


It would be useful to show a plot of what you are seeing (e.g. Surface
Lithium as function of stellar luminosity) and explain a bit better why
this is not matching your expectations. That way it will be easier to give
you suggestions on how to move forward.
Cheers,

Matteo


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Visiting Associate Researcher, Princeton University

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 7:54 AM, Debasish Dutta <
mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am fairly new to MESA and I am trying to see the surface Li depletion in
> the RGB phase in low mass stars due to thermohaline mixing. I used the
> 1M_pre_ms_to_wd test suite and accordingly made the necessary changes to
> incorporate thermohaline mixing. However, I am not getting the desired
> result. I could see some further depletion, but it occurs as an overall
> depletion and not in stages (like first due to the FDU and then due to
> thermohaline mixing; I should have seen Li depletion in two stages).  I
> have attached my inslists.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Debasish
>
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