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add the Potekhin and Chabrier (2010,2013) EOS

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
fortran
Domain
hpc

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Potekhin and Chabrier EOS source at http://www.ioffe.ru/astro/EIP/ and the MESA EOS overview linked in the issue. Then compare the available Fortran implementation with this repository's microphysics interfaces. Done means the EOS is integrated, with its supported magnetized-plasma behavior accounted for if in scope, and is usable through the project’s existing interfaces.

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Description

EOS

The Potekhin and Chabrier (2010,2013) EOS is freely available (in Fortran) here:

http://www.ioffe.ru/astro/EIP/

This EOS seems to be preferred by MESA:

https://docs.mesastar.org/en/r15140/eos/overview.html

There is also support here for a magnetized plasma.

Dominant language
C++
Stars
44
Forks
46
Avg merge
3d 15h
Merged PRs (30d)
9

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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