[Mesa-users] Temporal smoothing of ST coeff - flag

Rob Farmer robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 15:02:56 UTC 2023


Hi

In this case the ST refers to the spruit-taylor dynamo for angular momentum
mixing. They are terms that set how much the angular momentum is smoothed
over time to prevent sudden jumps in the amount of angular momentum being
transported inside the star.

Rob

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 at 20:10, Hernandez, Angel Salazar via Mesa-users <
mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:

> Hi Mesa community,
>
>
> I wanted to ask what exactly is happening when the following flags are
> used:
>
>
> -Taken directly from mesa documentation-
>
> ST_angsmt = 0.2d0ST_angsml = 1d-3
>
> I have checked the recommended file rotation_mix_info.f90 but did not
> understand much. Are there any resources regarding these flags? I assume
> this flag is used for time spectral methods?
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
>
> angel
>
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