mesa-users] nova model question

[Mike Z. <mzi...@sc...>]

Hi Bill and company, I started playing around with the nova test problem 
in star/test_suite/nova and I have a question about the strategy used 
here.

It seems that the entire white dwarf is modeled, even though the action 
will be limited to the surface layers.  Is this a MESA requirement? or is 
there a capability to model just the outer portion of the white dwarf and 
the accreted envelope?  For the nova this may not make much of a 
difference, either physics or computational resource-wise, but if one 
wanted to try to do X-ray burst models, one may not want to deal with the 
neutron star interior (and EOS issues / GR).  Instead, modeling just the 
outer portion of the NS with suitable BCs representing the interior would 
be an easier path.  Is was just curious if this were possible currently.

Thanks,

Mike Zingale


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