Comment on `Heating of Enceladus due to the dissipation of ocean tides’ by R. Tyler
Mikael Beuthe
Dissipation of ocean potential energy is proposed by Tyler (2020) as a new mechanism leading to possible high-power states for Enceladus. I show here that this process actually results from viscoelastic dissipation within the crust. For plausible values of Enceladus’s ocean thickness, crustal dissipation can be computed with the standard approach of static deformations of solid layers by equilibrium tides.
Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
Journal reference: Icarus 350 (2020) 113934
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113934
Cite as: arXiv:2011.14800 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2011.14800v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
Submission history
From: Mikael Beuthe
[v1] Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:58:48 UTC (119 KB)
