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-====== Geo/​Planetary Dynamo Model Wish List ====== 
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-__Must Haves__ 
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-  - Boundary conditions: 
-    - Temperature:​ Fixed temp or fixed flux at both boundaries 
-    - Tangential Velocity: No slip or viscous stress-free or drag law 
-    - Magnetic Field: Finitely conducting or insulating at both boundaries 
-    - Radial velocity: impermeable or permeable 
-  - Geometry: 
-    - Prescription of inner core size, including no inner core 
-    - Topography on boundaries (e.g. ellipticity,​ or mountains) 
-  - External Influences: 
-    - Mantle thermal heterogeneities as a thermal boundary condition 
-    - External magnetic field sources 
-  - Driving Mechanisms: 
-    - Internal heating 
-    - Compositional driving independent of thermal driving 
-    - Precession, Tides, Mechanical torques (i.e. impacts, boundary motion) 
-  - Stratification:​ 
-    - Allowing radial stratification through background temperature profiles (i.e. fake heat sources in Boussinesq models) 
-    - Internal interfaces 
-    - Prescribed radial variations of internal heat sources, secular cooling, and compositional change (note: this is a generalization of item 5a). 
-  - Temperature/​pressure dependent physical parameters ​ 
-    - Different equations of state 
-    - Radial variations (e.g. density, conductivity,​ viscosity…) 
-    - Lateral variations (e.g. relating conductivity directly to temperature in Hot Jupiter atmospheres) 
-    - allowing radiative regions in gas giant atmospheres 
-  - Freely Rotating Inner core that can respond to torques from: 
-    - Inner-core / Mantle gravitational coupling 
-    - EM torques 
-    - Viscous torques 
-    - Pressure torques (with boundary topography) 
-  - Implicit or explicit treatment of Coriolis force 
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-__Dream of having__ 
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-  - As realistic parameter values as possible 
-  - Subgrid-scale turbulence (perhaps this should go in the “must haves” based on Hiro’s & Bruce’s work?) 
-  - Inner core physics 
-    - convection in the inner core 
-    - inner core translation 
-    - phase equilibrium at inner core boundary 
-    - inner core ellipticity – respond to gravitational torques in mantle 
-  - Gravity field solver (including mantle density anomalies) 
-  - Real geochemistry in the core  
-    - snow zones 
-    - helium rain 
-    - other odd features due to chemistry in multi-component fluids 
-    - mixtures of solids & fluids 
-  - Mushy layer physics at ICB 
-  - Solid/fluid mixtures 
  
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