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PlantHydraulics Model Simplification

Open Espeer5 opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. To make progress toward #596, we need a simplified PlantHydraulics model designed specifically for a Big leaf model, which doesn't need to carry around vectors of layer heights.

Describe the solution you'd like Build a BigLeafHydraulics model which is the reduction of the current PlantHydraulics model to a single leaf and stem layer.

Describe alternatives you've considered One possible alternative was to reduce the plant hydraulics model to a multilayered model where each layer was the same height, but this was spurned in favor of the explicit big leaf model since our current intended use case is a big leaf model only.

Additional context This hydraulics model will be coupled to a new Biomass model which will move all of the area indices out of the hydraulics model. The choice to remove n_stem, n_leaf, and the other parameters which support a multilayered PlantHydraulics model will make the interface between these two modules much cleaner.

Espeer5 avatar Apr 29 '24 19:04 Espeer5