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nichollsh / AGNI

A 1D radiative-convective model for the atmospheres of hot terrestrial planets.
https://nichollsh.github.io/AGNI/
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Include condensation flux consistently into the energy balance #5

Closed nichollsh closed 2 months ago

nichollsh commented 7 months ago

Condensation is important as it prevents the temperature dropping below the dew point temperature. Including this in the time-stepping solver is easy, but including it into the nonlinear solver is more tricky.

Maybe one way to do this is to set the power dissipation (i.e. F_bot-F_top across a cell) to be strictly positive when T<=T_dew.

nichollsh commented 5 months ago

This has been partially implemented in the condensation branch. It uses a method for 'relaxing' the temperature profile onto the saturation curve, but introducing a signed residual when T<T_dew which forces T=T_dew to be a valid solution to the system of equations.

nichollsh commented 2 months ago

Closed by #29.