Weather on terraformed Venus
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Recent videos on this channel showed simulations of the weather on the Earth and on terraformed Mars, using a simplified model. The same code can be used to model the weather on other planets having an atmosphere. In this simulation, we assume that Venus has been terraformed, creating an ocean that covers a large part of the planet.
The video shows a simulation of the compressible Euler equations on Venus, as a very simplified model for the weather. The main effect of the land masses is that they slow down the wind speed. The initial state consists in 16 different pressure systems spread over the planet, which roughly resemble the pressure and wind distribution on Earth on May 21 2024, as seen on www.windy.com/ . In addition, a ground state made of westerly winds at intermediate latitudes, and easterlies/trade winds near the equator and the poles has been added to the overall wind pattern.
This simulation uses two maps available online. The elevation of the planet's surface is based on the digital elevation model (DEM) astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/... , while the coloring stems from the map fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier... .
I'm not claiming this simulation to be a realistic representation of the (hypothetical) weather, because many important effects are neglected. However, it does include the Coriolis force, and the pressure systems do rotate in the correct way: High pressure systems rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern hemisphere, while the situation is reversed for low pressure systems. One major limitation is that the density field is too unstable. I suspect this is due to the fact that the speed of sound is way too large in my model equations, and I will try to improve that in future simulations.
The video has four parts, showing the same simulation with two different color gradients and two different representations:
Density, 3D: 0:00
Wind speed, 3D: 1:16
Density, 2D: 2:37
Wind speed, 2D: 3:53
The 2D parts use an equirectangular projection of the sphere. The velocity field is materialized by 2000 tracer particles that are advected by the flow. In parts 1 and 3, the color hue depends on the density of the fluid, which is related to its pressure. In parts 2 and 4, the color hue depends on the fluid's speed. In the 3D parts, the radial coordinate in the oceans also depends on the indicated field, more so for the wind speed. The point of view of the observer is rotating around the polar axis of the sphere at constant latitude.
In a sense, the compressible Euler equations are easier to simulate than the incompressible ones, because one does not have to impose a zero divergence condition on the velocity field. However, they appear to be a bit more unstable numerically, and I had to add a smoothing mechanism to avoid blow-up. This mechanism is equivalent to adding a small viscosity, making the equations effectively a version of the Navier-Stokes equations. The equation is solved by finite differences, where the Laplacian and gradient are computed in spherical coordinates. Some smoothing has been used at the poles, where the Laplacian becomes singular in these coordinates.
Render time: Parts 1 and 2 - 1 hour 21 minutes
Parts 3 and 4 - 1 hour 22 minutes
Compression: crf 23
Color scheme: Parts 1 and 3 - Viridis, by Nathaniel J. Smith, Stefan van der Walt and Eric Firing
github.com/BIDS/colormap
Parts 2 and 4 - Parula, originally from Matlab
www.mathworks.com/help/matlab...
Music: "Grass" by Silent Partner
The simulation solves the compressible Euler equation by discretization.
C code: github.com/nilsberglund-orlea...
#Euler_equation #fluid_mechanics #weather #Venus - Věda a technologie
This would be so cool as a full-on climate model! 😃❤️
With the 117 day solar cycle, the weather would pass around the planet like a fast seasonal cycle. Brutally hot summers and hard frozen winters, with howling storms always.
Ive always wanted to terraform venus
so did russians in their never ending venera missions :) - venera is the state of the man's mind :)
What a beautiful gem! We can dare to hope to dream ... one day.
Very cool. It starts here. Then someone writes a book and 500 years in the future, we have a planet that's inhabitable.
kurzgesagt already made a video on this. It would take about 1000 years. (mostly because venus spins really slowly and is very close to the sun)
"2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson also contains parts featuring a partially terraformed Venus.
I LOVE VENUS!!!!!
Really awesome simulation! I'm guessing that it's set to an Earth-like rotation state?
On a current Venus you don't really get the same Easterly-Westerly winds from the coriolis force because the rotation is really slow.
There are some really interesting papers that show that on a water rich Venus you tend to get these massive cloud banks that sit directly facing the sun, since there isn't enough geostrophy to redistribute them across the planet. Like a big old eyeball!
It actually end up regulating the temperature to keep Venus livable - would be awesome to see that!
I didn't try to carefully match the Coriolis effect, which may well be too strong. Perhaps I will manage to improve my code by adding temperature and other effects, then it might be worth revisiting this simulation.
Very nice :) i like the ocean heat or density (salt/halina) flows :) - glad that the fluid doesnt evaporate in 200-400 C of the full greenhouse effect - on earth the full greenhouse effect would result in 70C so there still would be 10-25% warmer than on earth :) ok there could be water with some radiation reflected.