[gmx-users] Please answer this!!! (Reaching the desired pressure and density)

[Justin Lemkul]

Please don't use subject lines like this ("please help," "urgent," etc); it's a 
bit ridiculous.  You double-posted after waiting only a few hours on a weekend. 
  Be patient.  Free advice isn't a service you can demand.

On 7/12/15 4:37 AM, Nima Sa wrote:
> Hi, Dear users,I have created a box of polymer with about 50 molecules. I'm
> performing NPT runs to reach to the pressure of 1 bar. After a long time of
> simulation (15 ns) the average pressure is still about -0.5 and the density
> has saturated to around 700 kg/m^3 which should become 1200 kg/m^3 at the
> pressure of one bar. These are the related parameters in .mdp file: ;
> Pressure coupling is onpcoupl = berendsen ; Pressure coupling on in
> NPTpcoupltype = isotropic ; uniform scaling of box vectorstau_p = 0.2 ; time
> constant, in psref_p = 1.0 ; reference pressure, in barcompressibility =
> 4.5e-5 ; isothermal compressibility of water, bar^-1 Does anyone know how can
> I fix this? Which parameters should I change to reach the desired pressure
> and density?Thanks in advance.-Nima Azar
>

15 ns is not a long time, especially with complex systems like polymers.  And, 
as I just told someone else, if the model doesn't produce the correct physical 
behavior, it's entirely possible that the force field parameters are inadequate.

-Justin

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