FormingWorlds / PROTEUS

Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.
https://fwl-proteus.readthedocs.io
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Dummy tidal heating #275

Closed nichollsh closed 2 days ago

nichollsh commented 3 days ago

Adds a module for dummy tidal heating. This is implemented by simply allowing the user to set the tidal power density H_tide in the configuration file. Closes #190.

This required the following changes:

This also lays the groundwork for implementing a new comprehensive tidal heating and orbital evolution calculation. It's not clear how these other models would operate, but they would at least have to communicate some information relating to tidal heating to the interior models.

Minor things:

nichollsh commented 3 days ago

You can see the impact of the tidal heating here. The case with 10x stronger heating reaches energy balance with a surface temperature ~300 K hotter. For TRAPPIST-1b, this paper predicts Htidal in excess of 16 nW/kg.

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timlichtenberg commented 3 days ago

Do you want me or someone else to review this already?

nichollsh commented 3 days ago

@timlichtenberg yes I think this is ready for review now that the tests are passing. If could please have a look at it, then that would be great.