[gmx-users] Simple question about PME

[David]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:32, Alexandre Suman de Araujo wrote:
> Hi GMXERS!!!!
> 
> A simple question about coulomb calculations:
> 
> Why I need to define rcoulomb when I use PME as coulomb type? I thougth 
> PME and cutoff's were diferent things. Or GROMACS use cutoffs for SR 
> coulomb calculations and PME for LR coulomb calculations????
> 
because it consists of short range (real space) contribution and long
range (fourier space) contribution. The rcoulomb is the switching
radius, and for accuracy you want it to be roughly 0.9 or 1.0 nm, not
smaller.

> Thank's!!!!!
-- 
David.
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