jrenaud90 / TidalPy

Software suite to perform solid-body tidal dissipation calculations for rocky and icy worlds
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Add solidus and liquidus as a function of pressure #18

Open jrenaud90 opened 5 years ago

jrenaud90 commented 5 years ago

This will be easy to do for silicates (see the equations 21 and 22 in Shoji & Kurita 2014).

Run these equations at layer initialization (TidalPy does not allow for a changing pressure at the moment, so these do not need to be recalculated after the planet is built).

Now phase change for other materials, namely ice, will be a much bigger challenge and deserves its own issue.