[gmx-developers] Semantics of acceleration groups.

[David van der Spoel]

ramon at juguete.quim.ucm.es wrote:
> Hello, I am playing with Gromacs code in update.c
> 
> What is the semantic of acceleration groups?
> 
> Looking at the code, it seems that the scaling effect of barostats
> and thermostat is not applied to the velocity of the accelerating group.
> This velocity is discounted before performing any other operation.
>  
> Why?
So that you get effective group velocities.
This can in principle be used to compute transport properties.
> 
> Ramon
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