Pass tidal heating to Aragog and SPIDER

FormingWorlds / PROTEUS

Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.

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Pass tidal heating to Aragog and SPIDER #282

Closed nichollsh closed 1 day ago

nichollsh commented 5 days ago

Passes tidal heating rate from PROTEUS to SPIDER and Aragog. Currently, this heating rate is just a constant value (W/kg) which is homogeneous throughout the mantle of the planet.

This can only be specified through the dummy orbit module (in the config file) for now.

Requires https://github.com/ExPlanetology/aragog/pull/34 to be merged first.

Closes https://github.com/FormingWorlds/PROTEUS/issues/281

Also includes patch for #280.

nichollsh commented 5 days ago

This seems to work quite nicely. The plot (with SPIDER) below shows that for a non-zero tidal heat production, the planet settles into radiative equilibrium with non-zero F_atm and the surface temperature stops changing with time.