Re: [mesa-users] Fwd: Wind loss in MESA

[Robert F. <rjf...@as...>]

Hi
My first guess is that mesa is not reading your inlists, all the files you
provided have .txt at the end but, mesa will look for the file inlist (no
.txt) first and use that to load the other inlist files

Your inlists also do not specify any mass loss prescription thus mesa will
not turn on mass loss, you need to look at the options in:

http://mesa.sourceforge.net/controls_defaults.html#mass_gain_or_loss

and find those suitable for you model, i would suggest looking at the
_wind_scheme options

Rob

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Bill Paxton <pa...@ki...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> Do you know how to activate a de Jager type mass loss during the main
> sequence of low mass stars?
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