[FLASH-USERS] Error of physical units in the eos_idealGamma implementation

Dean Townsley Dean.M.Townsley at ua.edu
Mon Feb 15 18:12:30 EST 2021


I expect that rather than changing the implementation, many would rather 
a note be added to the user guide that if a non-cgs unit system is 
chosen A is the molar mass, not the atomic mass.

Dean

On 2/15/21 10:47 AM, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, RIGON Gabriel wrote:
>
>> The problem here is the actual definition of A in the code.
>> A is defined using the eos_singleSpeciesA variable which is initialized in
>> rp_initParameters to a dimensionless constant "1". The problem is the absence
>> of dimension.
> The "MKS" unit system in FLASH is not as much used (and not as well
> tested) as the default "cgs" unit system.  It would not be too surprising
> to find problems in other physics units when using "MKS" mode.
>
> Klaus
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