[gmx-users] Vacuum disappear after NPT equilibration?

[Justin Lemkul]

On 1/18/14, 3:05 PM, Guangwei Jiang wrote:
> Hi, Mark,
>
> I hope to introduce the ions into two water compartments above and below the lipid bilayers. But with the vacuum, I can block the ions flowing into the other side. This may overcome the case from periodic boundary condition.
>
> But I need to have such a stable structure with vacuum. Do you have any suggestions towards the equilibration?
>

Using "pbc = xy" in conjunction with walls (and other necessary settings listed 
in the manual) circumvents this problem.  Or, as I suggested before, setting a 
zero compressibility in the z-dimension should be adequate.

-Justin

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