[gmx-users] Number of degrees of freedom for generating velocities

[David van der Spoel]

Esteban Vöhringer wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> I was looking into the code, how the velocities are generated in grompp, 
> once the option genvel is used in the .mdp file.
> I don't understand why the number of degrees of freedom which are used 
> to calculate the scaling factor for the random velocities is 3N and not 
> 3N-Nc ( Nc= Number of constraitns; N=Number of atoms).
> is there some special reason?
because the constraints are not taking into account during vel. 
generation. before the first MD step the constraints are applied and the 
temperature is approximately correct.
> 
> Tank you in advance for your help
> 
> Esteban
> 
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