14 citations · 14 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
4 papers
The Blinking Crystallinity of Europa: A Competition between Irradiation and Thermal Alteration
Cyril Mergny, Frédéric Schmidt, Felix Keil
The surface of Europa experiences a competition between thermally-induced crystallization and radiation-induced amorphization processes, leading to changes of its crystalline struc…
LunaIcy: Exploring Europa's Icy Surface Microstructure through Multiphysics Simulations
Cyril Mergny, Frédéric Schmidt
A multiphysics simulation model incorporating a sintering model coupled with the MultIHeaTS thermal solver was developed to study the evolution of icy moons' microstructure. The si…
MultIHeaTS: A Fast and Stable Thermal Solver for Multilayered Planetary Surfaces
Cyril Mergny, Frédéric Schmidt
A fully implicit scheme is proposed for solving the heat equation in 1D heterogeneous media, available as a computationally efficient open-source Python code. The algorithm uses fi…
A generic frequency dependence for the atmospheric tidal torque of terrestrial planets
Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Jérémy Leconte, Cyril Mergny
Thermal atmospheric tides have a strong impact on the rotation of terrestrial planets. They can lock these planets into an asynchronous rotation state of equilibrium. We aim at cha…