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[FEAT] Calculate the electron temperature #24

Open aaronjridley opened 3 years ago

aaronjridley commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The electron temperature needs to be calculated.

Describe the solution you'd like Once the collisional heating terms are calculated, there is still a LONG way to go on the electron temperature. This has a HUGE number of terms and is very complicated. We need to calculate this much more carefully than in the past, since the code in GITM is just spaghetti.

Describe alternatives you've considered Can put in an approximation to begin with.

Additional context Zhu and Ridley describe the method for the electron temperature equation. GITM's code works.

aaronjridley commented 1 year ago

Need to:

  1. make a list of all heating terms for electrons
  2. make functions for each of them with references
  3. make unit tests
  4. make sum of all of the source terms
  5. calculate the conductivity coefficients
  6. call the conduction solver