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B.e. Grand surface

The time integration of 1D thermal conduction equation of grand surface (A.55) is performed by the Crank-Nicolson scheme. The space differencing in (A.55) is evaluated by the second order centered scheme. The grand temperature and depth are evaluated on the grid point and the heat flux is evaluated on the half grid point. The number of vertical grid point is and the suffix of the lowest grid point is j = 1. The is assumed to the surface temperature The finite difference 1D thermal conduction equation is represented as follows.

 
    (B.59)

or,

     
  (B.60)

where , . This equation can be represented in matrix form as follows.

(B.61)

where . The elements of are represented as follows.


Considering the boundary condition (A.56), (B.61) is modified as follows.

(B.62)

Therefore, the grand temperature is given by the solution of the following matrix equation.

(B.63)

where the elements of are modified as follows.


is a column vector whose dimension is are represented as follows.



A numerical simulation of thermal convection in the Martian lower atmosphere.
Odaka, Nakajima, Ishiwatari, Hayashi,   Nagare Multimedia 2001
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