[gmx-users] accleration group

[David van der Spoel]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Rui Qiao wrote:

>Dear All:
>	In using Gromacs to do NEMD, I apply an accleration to each atom
>in the system and when I run "grompp", it shows me a message like:
>
>	"Net Acceleration in X direction, will be corrected"
>
>	What does this means?
This means that grompp corrects for a net force on the system because it
would lead to net center of mass velocity.
Actually this has nothing to do with pulling, but with e.g. computing
viscosity etc.

Groeten, David.
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