[gmx-users] Thermostating in NEMD

[David van der Spoel]

On 2010-11-27 23.54, Apoorv Kalyankar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering how does a thermostat work in a Non Equilibrium
> Simulation(NEMD) in GROMACS.
> Does it subtract out the streaming velocity before applying the
> thermostat or does it not apply thermostat at all in
> the direction of the applied acceleration?
> Thanks.
check source code in src/mdlib/update.c
IIRC it does not scale the group velocities resulting from acceleration 
and hence only the internal temperature is scaled.

>
> Apoorv Kalyankar
> Graduate Student
> Mechanical Science and Engineering
> Unviersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>


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