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Update Boltzmann constant? #351

Open mnlevy1981 opened 4 years ago

mnlevy1981 commented 4 years ago

In 2017, CODATA updated the value of the Boltzmann constant:

Newell, et al. (2018) Table 3

1.380649e−23 J/K is 8.61733326e−5 eV/K, which would be a small change from what we currently use in marbl_constants_mod.F90:

K_Boltz   =   8.617330350e-5_r8

(note: I'm getting the updated value via the conversion 1 eV = 1.602176634e−19 J, per the SI Brochure)