[gmx-users] negative pressures!

[Eric Jakobsson]

That sounds to me like normal behavior.  For a small system the 
instantaneous pressure fluctuations are enormous, of the order you are 
seeing.  Furthermore, water is almost incompressible, so if you do NVT at a 
density that is just a little bit off the density you would have for a 1 
atm NPT simulation, you will have an enormous net pressure, either positive 
or negative depending on whether your density is just a little too big or a 
little too small.

Why not run NPT, so the system finds its own appropriate density?

Eric

At 09:44 AM 2/19/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>I posted a similar message few days back, and since then I am trying to 
>find out where the bug is! I ran NVT md simulations for water, 
>peptide-water. And everytime for this NVT ensemble run, I am getting 
>pressures +/- 1000 bars. Dr.Spoel mentioned that this might be because of 
>a 'air bubble' in the system, or based on previous discussions in this 
>forum it maybe due to the high (wrong) densities. I checked the density 
>value (1 gm/cm3) for water box several times. I checked all the RDFs but i 
>couldnt locate anything wrong here. I am sure that I am missing out 
>something, but sadly i dont know what. Kindly help me out in this 
>matter.Thank you very much in advance.
>Amol
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