[gmx-users] Quick question about pressure coupling

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/11/13 9:01 AM, HANNIBAL LECTER wrote:
> I am trying to simulate a peptide inside a nanotube and using isotropic
> pressure coupling for the system. The nanotube is immersed in a cuboidal
> box of water and aligned along the z direction of the box.
>
> The XX, YY components of the stress tensor are about ~570 bars and the ZZ
> component is about -1179 yielding a total pressure of about 2 bars whereas
> my set pressure is ~1.01325 bars. Is this okay or should I be using
> semiisotropic coupling?
>

Over how long a time period are these values?  If everything is immersed in a 
bath of water, I doubt semiisotropic coupling is necessary.

-Justin

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