Building POLY Models

This appendix describes the build_poly executable, which builds a composite polytropic stellar model and writes it to a file in the POLY format.

• Installation
• Example Walkthrough: Simple Polytrope
  • Assembling a Namelist File
  • Running build_poly
• Example Walkthrough: Composite Polytrope
  • Assembling a Namelist File
  • Running build_poly
• Input Files
  • Polytrope Parameters
  • Numerical Parameters
  • Output Parameters