Skip to content

maxrudolph/icymoons_thermal_stress

Repository files navigation

PISTES - Planetary Ice Shell Thermal Evolution and Stress

This repository contains codes to reproduce the results in: Rudolph, M.L., Manga, M., Walker, M., and Rhoden, A.R. (in review). Cooling crusts create concomittant cryovolcanic conduits.

Thermal and stress evolution of icy moons, with application to Europa and Enceladus. Requirements:

  • MATLAB 2020a or later due to the use of tiled layouts.
  • Fabio Crameri's scientific colormaps
  • Parallel computing toolbox

Description of files:

  • The equations solved by the code are derived in the Supplemental Material: 2021GL094421_Supplemental_Material.pdf
  • The main driver program that sweeps parameter space is sweep_parameter_space.m. This will produce about 16GB of output as .mat files.
  • The file thickening_ice_shell.m solves for the stresses in an initially stress-free thickening ice shell with no heat input.
  • Helper subroutines are located in the subdirectory core/
  • Files in the benchmarks/ subdirectory can be used to reproduce the results in Nimmo (2004).

About

Thermal and stress evolution of icy moons

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published

Languages