[gmx-developers] modifing nonbonded interactions

[Nazish Hoda]

To do implicit-water md for a charged system. In the explicit-water md,
water is 
non-uniformly distributed along the molecules. I am trying to incorporate
this 
effect in my implicit-water simulation.

-Nazish

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[mailto:gmx-developers-bounces at gromacs.org] On Behalf Of Mark Abraham
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Subject: Re: [gmx-developers] modifing nonbonded interactions

Nazish Hoda wrote:
> This is what I am thinking. I know it is an approximation, but I don't
know
> how bad would this be.
> Let me know what you people think.
> In PME,
> E_coul = E_coul^SR +  E_coul^LR. (and the same holds for force) 
> 
> My cut off for dielectric permittivity, which I call r_1, is very small,
and
> would 
> only affect E_coul^SR (F_coul^SR). So what I think is that just changing
> E_coul^SR (F_coul^SR) 
> might work. 

Sure, subject to the foregoing force discontinuity issues, but what 
purpose might this serve? IIRC the purpose of a distance-dependent 
dielectric is to model heuristically either an effective dielectric 
constant, or one that allows the Coulomb sum to converge faster, or 
both. Since under PME the convergence of the short-range sum is already 
rapid, and common water models like SPC and TIPxP are parameterized for 
the use of a constant dielectric, you'd have many stones to roll up the 
hill to possibly get an inconclusive result.

Mark
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