[gmx-users] frozen group in pressure coupling

[David van der Spoel]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, qiao rui wrote:

>Hi, there:
>
>	I am wondering if anyone could give me some hints on the following
>issues.
>	1. In pressure coupling, does one update the position of the
>frozen group? The manual says that the coordinate of every atom will be
>scaled, but from the simulation results, it seems that the frozen group is
>not scaled. Am I making some mistakes here?
>
No, these positions are not scaled.

>	2. I couple the xx-direction pressure to one bar, and getting the
>huge numbers of pressure in other directions, is this OK?

Are these pressures negative? It is very likely that we do include the 
interactions with frozen atoms in the virial, while they have zero 
kinetic energy. In this case the pressure is incorrect. If you are somehow 
certain that your density os correct you can run NVT for a while, 
determine averages pressures, and if you need to run NPT, couple to these 
average pressures.

>
>	Thanks!
>
>	sincerely,
>
>	Rui
>------------------------
>Rui Qiao
>Research Assistant
>Beckman Institute, UIUC
>
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David.
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