[mesa-users] Fwd: Wind loss in MESA

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

Hi,

Glad to hear that you are using MESA again.

I'm forwarding your question to mesa-users -- there are lots of experienced users who are happy to answer questions like this one.   Thanks for attaching the inlists; that's a big help.

Cheers,
Bill



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> Resent-From: <pa...@ki...>
> From: Alessandro Patruno <pa...@st...>
> Date: March 18, 2017 10:00:08 AM PDT
> To: pa...@ki...
> Subject: Wind loss in MESA
> 

> I am using the latest version (9575) and I am evolving a binary with a point mass and a low mass main sequence donor (say <1 Msun). In my simulations I want the donor star to begin with a certain rotational velocity, synchronize with the orbit and emit wind (enhanced by tidal effects). I see that in this version of MESA all this is possible and so I want to take advantage of this.
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> However, I am having troubles to activate the wind loss in the low mass star. For some reason the code does not calculate any mass loss (wind) during the calculations and I do not know what I am doing wrong. The lg_wind_mdot_1 stays stuck at -99 throughout the simulation.
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> Do you know how to activate a de Jager type mass loss during the main sequence of low mass stars?
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