[gmx-users] Water droplet in vacuum

[David van der Spoel]

On 31/12/15 20:38, Ray Chao wrote:
> ​Dear All,
>
> I am really new to MD simulation and Gromacs. I am now trying to simulate a
> simple case that a water droplet in the vacuum.  I was simulating a water
> sphere with diameter of 7.0nm and 6000 mols in it under NVT (initial water
> droplet was created on packmol). The water model is SPCE under gromos53a6.
> The water droplet should keep spherical in the vacuum. However in my
> simulation, a number of water mols dispersed into the vacuum. Since I am
> really new in this area, can anybody help me with this problem?
This is not a problem, this is normal. See e.g.

Carl Caleman and David van der Spoel: Temperature and Structural Changes 
in Water Clusters due to Evaporation in Vacuum J. Chem. Phys. 125 pp. 
154508 (2006)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2357591

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>
> The google drive link tomy .mdp, .top and .gro files is also attached.
> Thank you very much.
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3QHg0jyPMMYQWRabi02VzUxbFE
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3QHg0jyPMMYaGpmbG42ckxGRkk
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3QHg0jyPMMYOTF0NUMtSVpXUjA
>


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