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Enthalpy-Based Thermal Evolution of Loops (EBTEL) model coded in the IDL language by J. A. Klimchuk, S. Patsourakos, and P.J. Cargill
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Update with optional effects due to area expansion #4

Closed wtbarnes closed 2 years ago

wtbarnes commented 3 years ago

This PR updates EBTEL to allow for loops with non-uniform cross-sections as derived in Cargill et al. (2021). This includes four new parameters:

and includes a number of changes to the EBTEL equations themselves. If A_tr=A_0=A_c=l_fact=1, then this will reduce to the usual EBTEL equations.

This PR also adds the fix to the c_1 parameter during the conductive cooling phase as described in the appendix of Barnes et al. (2016). This change is already implemented in ebtel++