[gmx-users] spherical box

[David]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 11:12, Anton Feenstra wrote:
> Erik Lindahl wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > No, that's a physical impossibility since there is no crystal class with 
> > spherical symmetry.
> > 
> > Perhaps you're thinking of 'droplet' boundary conditions, but they are 
> > really falling out of popularity compared to accurate Ewald summation in 
> > periodic boxes. We've never bothered to implement it for that reason, 
> > and I doubt we will in the future (it's not difficult for somebody else 
> > to do, though).
> 
> Using a combination of genbox or genconv, and trjorder it is already quite
> easy to generate a 'drop' of water. Turning off pbc is also trivial, but
> there is no straightforward feature to keep water from evaporating into
> the vacuum. There are also terrible artifacts involved with the water
> surface, related to dielectric properties and surface tention.

actually it is still used quite a lot, and new algorithms are being
developed to deal with it. I'll check the reference...
> 
> Is there any specific reason why you need this type of system set-up?
-- 
Groeten, David.
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