Re: [mesa-users] Suppress H burning

[RICHARD H D T. <tow...@as...>]

> On Mar 18, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Josiah Schwab <jws...@uc...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rich,
> 
>> That would work. But as someone who has never played with the nuclear
>> stuff in MESA, I’m at a loss how to start. Is there a tutorial on
>> modifying nets that I could follow?
> 
> Look at which net you're using.
> 
> Make a copy of that file from $MESA_DIR/data/net_data/nets into your
> work directory.
> 
>  cp $MESA_DIR/data/net_data/nets/basic.net no_burn_h.net
> 
> Open up no_burn_h.net in a text editor.  basic.net is quite readable.
> Comment out (or delete) the sections "pp chains" and "cno cycles".  The
> comment character is '!'.
> 
> Then, in star_job point MESA to your new net
> 
>  change_net = .true.
>  new_net_name = 'no_burn_h.net'
> 
> Josiah

Excellent — thanks to both of you!