TidalPy Documentation

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TidalPy Documentation

Tidal Dynamics and Thermal-Orbital Evolution Toolkit Implemented in Cython and Python

TidalPy is an open source software suite that utilizes a semi-analytic approach to estimate tidal heating, spin-orbit resonances, tidal & loading Love numbers, and thermal evolution for rocky and icy worlds. It has been used to simulate the thermal-orbital evolution of moons within our Solar System as well as exoplanets beyond. TidalPy’s RadialSolver package can accurately estimate the viscoelastic Love and Shida numbers for a multi-layered, rocky or icy world, including the effects of liquid layers, compressibility, dynamic tides, and advanced rheological models. This module has been used to study the tidal response of Mercury, Venus, Earth, our Moon, Mars, and much more.

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Also check out the GitHub page to see the code. GitHub

TidalPy

• Overview
  • How to Install
  • Using TidalPy
  • Citing TidalPy
  • Acknowledgements
  • License and Copyright
  • Getting Started
  • Configurations
  • Contributing
  • Code of Conduct
  • License
  • Additional License Notice

Modules

• Rheology
  • Rheology
• RadialSolver (Love Number Calculator)
  • Calculating Love Numbers
  • Solution Class
  • Helper Functions
  • Cython API
• Exoplanets
  • Downloading Exoplanet Data
• Dynamics
  • Dynamics

Demos

• Demos/1 - Build Planets
  • 2-Layer Layered World
  • 4-layer Layered World
  • 4-layer Burnman World
• Demos/2 - Thermal Exploration
  • Build the Planet
  • Plot the Planet’s Interior Structure
  • Set the Mantle’s Temperature and Plot its Viscoelastic Properties
• Demos/3 - Calculating Love Numbers
  • Planet with Homogeneous Layers
  • Planet with Inhomogeneous Layers, data loaded from file
  • Calculate loading Love numbers
• Demos/4 - Eccentricity Truncations
  • Setup calculation and plotting function
  • Plot some results
• Demos/5 - Rheology Exploration
  • Planetary Properties
• Demos/6 - Multilayer Heating
  • Build a Planet
  • Calculate the multilayer tidal response using a propagation matrix technique
  • Calculate Tidal Displacement
  • Strain and Stress Tensors
  • Tidal Heating Rate
  • Compare Matrix Propagation vs. Shooting Method
• Demos/7 - Comparison of Tidal Modes
• Demos/8 - Love Number Sensitivity
  • Setup functions
  • Four Layer Planet (Mercury-like)

Auto Generated API

• TidalPy API
  • TidalPy package