LOV3D

LOV3D is a Matlab package for obtaining the tidal response of multi-layered viscoelastic self-gravitating bodies with lateral variations of interior properties. For a given interior structure and tidal load, the software solves the mass conservation, momentum conservation and Poisson equations and computes the tidal Love numbers. For more information please see the README file and the user manual in /Docs.

This repository contains version of the software used in various publications:

v1.0 Rovira-Navarro M, Matsuyama I, Berne A. 2024. A Spectral Method to Compute the Tides of Laterally-Heterogeneous Bodies. The Planetary Science Journal. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ad381f

v2.3 Rovira-Navarro M, Matsuyama I, Dirkx D, Berne A, Calliess D, Fayolle S. 2025. Prospects of Using Tidal Tomography to Constrain Ganymede's Interior. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1029/2025GL114708

Check https://github.com/mroviranavarro/LOV3D_multi for updates.