Where to find equations to calculate tidal heating in a binary planet/planetesimal system?

I'm building a very small homeworld (0.602 M$_e$) with a very large moon (0.0711 M$_e$) that orbit each other at a barycenter about 7.12 planetary radii (1 R = 0.870 R$_e$) from the primary's center; 52.08 R from the moon's center. I'm trying to get a realistic model of geological activity on both worlds, and I was wondering how much tidal flexing would play into the vulcanism, seismic activity and average temperature of the primary in particular. There is one other article on here that I've found that might help, but I can't make heads or tails of it!

Is there anybody who might be willing to walk me, a lowly music student, through it? Cheers and thanks :)

posted almost 7 years ago

Rúnatál Davino‭

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