[gmx-users] settle issue

[David van der Spoel]

Mu Yuguang (Dr) wrote:
> Dear All,
> When I try to simulate TIP4Pew water box at 298K, and found the density
> got from gromacs is relative low (983 g/cm3) than the amber (sander)
> version 994 g/cm3. I cannot find the reason. The parameters for the
> tip4pew model are identical. When I check some intra-molecular
> distances, and seem to find a hint: in gromacs simulation the
> intra-molecular atom-atom distance (should be fixed by settle)
> fluctuation is quite large!
> How can one increase the accuracy of settles in gromacs? 
> 
Settle is analytical and there is no tolerance. However you may be using 
settle with the SPC parameters (unlikely though). Maybe you should turn 
on the Dispersion Correction to the pressure (EnerPres). That gives a 
similar density difference.


> Regards
> Yuguang
>  
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David.
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