Surface energy flux on a terrestrial exoplanet in the habitable zone (HZ) due to tidal dissipation according the the eqtide-CPL model from vplanet.
| Date | 12/15/18 |
| Author | Rory Barnes |
| Modules | eqtide |
| Approx. runtime | 3 minutes |
| Source code | vplanet, vplot |
This example calculates the surface energy flux on a 1 Earth-mass, 1 Earth-radius terrestrial exoplanet that is tidally locked and has a tidal Q of 12 and an eccentricity of 0.05. It requires vplanet and it supporting software packages vspace (part of vplanet) and vplot.
To run this code and generate a figure -------------------
vspace vspace.in
python makeplot.py <pdf | png>