Re: [mesa-users] Equation Of State (EOS) options

[Bill P. <pa...@ki...>]

And the brave user can place privately constructed eos files in mesa/data/eos as long as they follow the standard format.  Give them a new prefix such as "my_eos" and then set eos_file_prefix = 'my_eos' in your inlist.

-b






On Sep 1, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Robert Farmer wrote:

> Hi
> So the best place to find out what file prefixes are available is to look at the data files themselves:
> 
> ls $MESA_DIR/data/eos*
> 
> You should see mesa, mesa-no-rad and macdonald as different prefixes, mesa is the one described in the mesa papers, mesa-no-rad removes radiation and macdonald is based on the MacDonald EOS code (MacDonald & Mullan 2012) (See MESA II). 
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Evan Bauer <eb...@ph...> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> This appears to me to be a rare case in which documentation of this particular control is almost totally missing from the defaults files. At least in my attempt to figure this out, I could find no comment offering either explanation of this control or a list of other options. Can you offer further insight?
> 
> Cheers,
> Evan
> 
> 
> > On Sep 1, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Francis Timmes <fx...@ma...> wrote:
> >
> > take a peek at
> >
> > http://mesa.sourceforge.net/star_job_defaults.html#eos_controls
> >
> > http://mesa.sourceforge.net/controls_defaults.html#eos_controls
> >
> > fxt
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Sep 1, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Nsamba Benard <nsa...@gm...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> MESA offers
> >>
> >> eos_file_prefix = 'mesa'
> >>
> >> option for setting EoS.
> >>
> >> - What other particular options are available apart from the above option?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Benar
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