[gmx-users] Couette flow

Manik Mayur manik.mayur at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 19:47:36 CEST 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:11 PM, David van der Spoel
<spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>wrote:

> Manik Mayur wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, David van der Spoel <
>> spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote:
>>
>>    Manik Mayur wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>        On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM, David van der Spoel
>>        <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>
>>        <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>           Manik Mayur wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>               On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:25 PM, David van der Spoel
>>               <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>
>>        <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>>
>>               <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
>>        <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se> <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
>>        <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>>>> wrote:
>>
>>                  Manik Mayur wrote:
>>
>>                      Hi,
>>
>>                      With reference to
>>
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg13374.html
>>
>>                      I would like to know if anybody has successfully
>>        simulated
>>                      couette flow using GROMACS. If yes, then please
>>        suggest what
>>                      specific steps has to be taken. If no, then are the
>>               developers
>>                      planning to implement giving constant velocity to
>>        a group of
>>                      atoms, as we can do in LAMMPS, in future versions.
>>
>>                      It will really be a life saver if GROMACS can be
>>        used for
>>               such
>>                      problems.
>>
>>
>>                  As the mail you pointed to suggest, it is quite simple
>>        to do
>>                  yourself. As a first guess look for routine
>>                  static void do_update_md(int start,int homenr,double dt,
>>
>>                  in src/mdlib/update.c
>>
>>                  and find this line:
>>
>>                           /* do not scale the mean velocities u */
>>                           vn             = gstat[ga].u[d] +
>>        accel[ga][d]*dt +
>>               vnrel;
>>
>>                  and replace it by
>>
>>                           /* do not scale the mean velocities u */
>>                           vn             = gstat[ga].u[d] +
>>        accel[ga][d] + vnrel;
>>
>>                  and recompile.
>>
>>                  As you see, I just removed the multiplication by the time
>>               step. Now
>>                  in the input file (mdp) you enter the velocity instead
>>        of the
>>                  acceleration in the appropriate entries, and you are
>>        good to
>>               go. You
>>                  may need to remove the mean velocity of the group as
>>        well...
>>
>>
>>               Thanks a lot for the suggestion. But will this work if I
>>        have 2
>>               groups, one with constant velocity and another with constant
>>               acceleration? Like a superposition of couette and
>>        poiseuille flow.
>>
>>           You didn't mention that :(.
>>           No, you will have to do some more hacking, but you could e.g.
>>        make
>>           group 0 to have acceleration and group 1 a velocity.
>>
>>
>>        Can you provide more insight on how to achieve it, as from your
>>        suggestion it turns out, I can have either constant velocity
>>        build of GROMACS or the constant acceleration one.
>>
>>    if  (g == 0)
>>    APPLy acceleration
>>    else if (g == 1)
>>    apply velocity
>>    else
>>    do normal update
>>
>>  I really appreciate your help. One last doubt, what is this 'g' or the
>> group you are talking about? As we define acc_grps by their names and not
>> numbers in the mdp file. Do we have to introduce some new parameter 'g'
>> which will be defined as 0 or 1 accordingly?
>>
> EasY:
>
> acc_groups = Cucumber TOmata
> means Cucumber = 0, Tomato = 1
>

Got it. :) Thanks a lot.


>> Also, can't we have this feature in the main stream GROMACS rather than
>> having our own custom build, something like vel_grps? Just a suggestion.
>>
> Sure, but that doesn't help you now.
>

Yes, but I would like to see my favorite MD package as one of the most
versatile package available :)


>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>                      Also can we build GROMACS as a library to be
>>        called from
>>                      customized codes?
>>
>>                      Thanks,
>>                      --        Manik Mayur
>>                      Graduate student
>>                      Microfluidics Lab
>>                      Dept. of Mechanical Engg.
>>                      IIT Kharagpur
>>                      INDIA
>>
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-- 
Manik Mayur
Graduate student
Microfluidics Lab
Dept. of Mechanical Engg.
IIT Kharagpur
INDIA
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