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Software suite to perform solid-body tidal dissipation calculations for rocky and icy worlds

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Implement a more realistic lower layer temperature for OOP #19

Open jrenaud90 opened 5 years ago

jrenaud90 commented 5 years ago

Currently, the base temperature of a layer is equal to its average temperature (layer.temperature_lower = layer.temperature).

In reality, this temperature will be higher. Generally, this is found via an assumed viscosity drop across the layer (See Hussmann & Spohn 2004).

[ ] Look into seeing if this is a decent enough model to use.
[ ] Determine if the viscosity drop is going to be robust enough to handle different viscosity equations (Reference vs. Arrhenius).
[ ] Implement it into the layer class.