[gmx-users] Normal to see volume expansion

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 03:07, Jun Qian wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> When I put a simple cube box of SPC water molecules and have 4.5v/nm
> electric field. I see volume expand hugely, and pressure goes from negative
> to positive to negative to ... all the simulation time.
> 
> My question is how they adjust volume and pressure at the same time in
> Gromacs. It seems Pressure and Volume are relative by Pressure * Volume
> equal something...
> 
> Thank you in advance!

Check chapter 3. Pressure is a result from the simulation which can be
used to scale the volume. You have a large field, but didn't say how
large the box was. Water may freeze under such a field.
> 
> Jun
> 
> 
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