[gmx-developers] adding new atom types to gromacs "shell model"

[David]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 02:36, Julius Su wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had some questions about the shell model implemention in GROMACS --
> 
> (1) is it possible to define new shell types?
Can you make yourself more clear? Right now a shell is a point charge
connected to another particle (or dummy position) with a spring. The
shell is massless and its position is optimised at every time step.
Obviously one can also give them a mass (e.g. 1 amu) and do normal
dynamics.

> (2) are the shells point charges or gaussian charges (screened coulomb
> interaction)?
Point charges. It is not very difficult to screen the Coulomb
interactions using table lookup, but then it becomes more difficult to
use PME for electrostatics.

> (3) is it possible to restrict the shells to interact with only a subset
> of atoms?
There is a mechanism called energy_exclusions where you list two group
that do not interact. It may be too simple for what you want

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Julius
> 
> 
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David.
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