[gmx-users] Heating a wall adjacent to the fluid

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/20/15 6:11 AM, Rahul Chatterjee wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been trying to simulate a fluid over a heated substrate. I either
> need to freeze or restrain the particles on the substrate in order to make
> them behave as rigid wall.However, this would not allow me to have a
> thermostat declared for the wall particles and coupling them to thermostats
> like berendsen and v-rescale. On the other hand, if I apply the thermostat
> and do not freeze the wall particles they vibrate according to the
> temperature specified and hence randomly gets arranged within the
> simulation box behaving like a fluid rather than a heated substrate. Can
> someone please suggest me how to simulate hot surfaces using gromacs?

A position restraint on each particle, either in absolute coordinates or as a 
flat-bottom restraint, would probably be the only way to do this.  Freezing, as 
you noted, means they are literally fixed and have no velocity, thus no 
temperature.  Depending on how "hot" the particles are, you may have to have a 
pretty stiff restraint, so I don't know necessarily what that accomplishes.

-Justin

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