Dissipation Of Tidal Energy By Flexing Ice Shelves

Coupled convection and tidal dissipation in Europa’s ice shell

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.12.028 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Han), showman man). We performed 2D numerical simulations of oscillatory tidal flexing to study the interrelationship between tidal dissipation (calculated using the Maxwell model) and a heterogeneous temperature structure in Europa’s ice shell. Our 2D sim...

Melting of io by tidal dissipation.

The dissipation of tidal energy in Jupiter's satellite Io is likely to have melted a major fraction of the mass. Consequences of a largely molten interior may be evident in pictures of Io's surface returned by Voyager I.

Mars Thermal Evolution: Aided by Tidal Dissipation?

Introduction: Early models of accretion of Mars [1] suggested long time scales and led to assumed cold post-accretion initial temperatures [2]. But later accretion models [3] gave much shorter time scales and led to the general acceptance of a hot Mars heated by the kinetic energy of impacting planetesimals. Evidence from isotopic studies also seems to require early melting; in particular, Hf-W...

Transoceanic infragravity waves impacting Antarctic ice shelves

[1] Long-period oceanic infragravity (IG) waves (ca. [250, 50] s period) are generated along continental coastlines by nonlinear wave interactions of storm-forced shoreward propagating swell. Seismic observations on the Ross Ice Shelf show that free IG waves generated along the Pacific coast of North America propagate transoceanically to Antarctica, where they induce a much higher amplitude she...

Tidal dissipation in creeping ice and the thermal evolution of Europa