[Mesa-users] Switching MESA-r9798 to the newest version r24.3.01

[Kit Yu Lau]

This is the luminosity plot I got for the new version. It takes 1  week to
get the following resutls:[image: image.png]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 12:29 AM Ebraheem Farag <ekfarag at asu.edu> wrote:

> Hello Kit,
>
> Please share your inlists or some sort of output comparison (perhaps
> attach txt files of the terminal output from both of your runs or the logs
> or a pgstar) if you want comment. It's nearly impossible to speculate
> otherwise except to say that the current version of MESA is much more
> careful  in a variety of respects and takes extra solver iterations to
> ensure good numerical convergence with respect to previous versions
> including the use energy conservation to maintain numerical accuracy
> (something not done in mesa-r9798). Much of this is documented in MESA IV
> <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJS..234...34P/abstract> and MESA
> V <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..243...10P/abstract>.
>
> -EbF
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 6:40 AM Kit Yu Lau via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I used the most updated version of mesa to run X-ray bursts. Comparing
>> with the old version (mesa-r9798) . It is much slower. I spent 10 days for
>> the new version to get 2 bursts but the old version I spent 3 days to get 5
>> bursts. All the input files are the same for both versions. Is there any
>> way to speed up the new version? Thank you very much.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rita Lau
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 1:48 PM Frank Timmes <fxtimmes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi rita,
>>>
>>> mesa has always used an evolving patchwork of eos modules to cover the
>>> rho-t plane. this eos patchwork for recent versions is shown in figure
>>> 7 of section 4 in mesa vi (jermyn et al 2023), also described at
>>> https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/overview.html
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/overview.html__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!YEDGoBxIue5Bt2R-BRTkPSG-6fl2vcTcqMub_4ovLO-Q0TQt9hld6JxESGO8MaIX13vdzJfkkDBMN5Tyzs2O_6pMof9Osw$> with
>>> inlist controls at
>>> https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/defaults.html#eos-module-controls
>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.mesastar.org/en/release-r24.06.1-rc1/eos/defaults.html*eos-module-controls__;Iw!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!YEDGoBxIue5Bt2R-BRTkPSG-6fl2vcTcqMub_4ovLO-Q0TQt9hld6JxESGO8MaIX13vdzJfkkDBMN5Tyzs2O_6qY4lMFmA$> . the
>>> current eos patchwork cannot be easily changed to the eos patchwork used in
>>> 2017 for r9798.
>>>
>>> fxt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 17, 2024, at 11:23 PM, Kit Yu Lau via Mesa-users <
>>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I was using mesa-r9798 and I am switching to the newest version.
>>> However, there was no eos in mesa-r9798. I think I was using helm_table.dat
>>> for the old version. How do I change the newest version to use the same
>>> eos? I tried not to command anything in eos and it seems that it is using
>>> eos_free. How do I change the eos to helm_table.dat? Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rita
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