[gmx-users] Ewald 3dc

[David L. Bostick]

As long as you extend your "non-periodic" dimension sufficiently, I believe
there should be no problem.

David


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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Janne Hirvi wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I have one question about ewald 3dc option. Is it suitable for all 2D
> simulations even if a system wouldn't be precisely a slab model. With exact
> slab model I mean something more or less rectangular. For example if there is a
> liquid droplet on a surface, the shape of the system differ from the exact
> rectangle. I understood that 3dc option just includes surface dipole term,
> which has been derived using "rectangular" summation instead of spherical
> summation and this should lead to results more close to exact 2D simulations. I
> think that 2D and slab models can be understand as synonyms, but how is it
> here?
>
>
> Thanks for any comments!
>
> Janne
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