FormingWorlds / PROTEUS

Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.
https://proteus-code.readthedocs.io
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Surface boundary condition #97

Open nichollsh opened 1 month ago

nichollsh commented 1 month ago

The current surface boundary condition solves for surface temperature and atmospheric flux, given the magma temperature. This assumes a fixed lid thickness, and a constant dT/dz in the conductive boundary layer.

In reality, the thickness of the boundary layer would evolve with time. We should think about ways to incorporate a solution of both surface temperature and lid thickness, given the mantle temperature and the atmospheric flux calculation.

See this recent paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad4351