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A toolbox for constructing performance portable aerosol packages
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Add accommodation coefficient and molecular diffusion constant fields to GasSpecies? #428

Open jeff-cohere opened 1 year ago

jeff-cohere commented 1 year ago

We are starting to collect some parameters that characterize the behavior of gas particles. At some point, we should discuss whether to add these parameters to the definition of a gas species.

overfelt commented 1 year ago

From gas/aerosol exchange // ratio of gas uptake coeff w.r.t. that of h2so4 static constexpr Real h2so4_h2so4_uptake_coeff_ratio = 1.00; // for SOAG static constexpr Real soag_h2so4_uptake_coeff_ratio = 0.81; // for SOAG static constexpr Real nh3_h2so4_uptake_coeff_ratio = 2.08; // for NH3

pbosler commented 1 year ago

Gas accommodation coefficients for mass transfer (via molecular mean path diffusion) and thermodynamics transfer also appear in the droplet activation process. In mam4 ndrop.F90, their values are magic constants in the .F90 files; you wouldn't know what they are unless you read the derivation papers that describe the parameterization. However, for droplet activation the gases are dry air and water vapor and the literature disagrees on their correct values.