[gmx-users] Wheter the drift velocity has been removed from calculating the temperature?

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Tue Feb 12 08:41:34 CET 2008


Hu Zhongqiao wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I wonder if the drift velocity has been removed from calculating the 
> temperature for a non-equilibrium MD in which a directional movement for 
> a group exists due to external force applied.
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Yes it is. Please check the source code in src/mdlib/update.c

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> One paper, entitled “Why are carbon nanotubes fast transporters of 
> water?” (Joseph and Aluru, Nano Letters, web release version in Feb. 
> 2008), mentioned that “the mean axial velocity of water was subtracted 
> from the axial component of the velocity of each water molecule as 
> implemented in ref 20.” Here the ref 20 is the one (Lindahl et al., 
> Gromacs 3.0: a package for molecular simulation and trajectory analysis. 
> J Mol Model, 2001, 7:306-317). Unfortunately I did not find such 
> information in ref 20.
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> Anyone can tell me the clear answer on this?
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> Thanks,
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> Zhongqiao
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