FormingWorlds / PROTEUS

Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.
https://fwl-proteus.readthedocs.io
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Offset input planet mass by volatile mass #269

Closed nichollsh closed 1 week ago

nichollsh commented 1 week ago

With https://github.com/FormingWorlds/PROTEUS/pull/262, the user can specify a dry mantle mass as an input parameter, from which a mantle radius is calculated. It would be useful if, instead/alternatively, the user could specify the total planet mass.

This would mean subtracting-off the volatile inventory from the total input planet mass, and using the result (the dry interior mass) to solve for R_int as per the current formulation.