[gmx-users] rlist

Faezeh Pousaneh fpoosaneh at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 17:30:19 CET 2018


Thank you Justin, now I understood. However, I do not have any target data
for my system. What do you suggest? the longer rcoulomb is safer, right?


Best regards


On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 1/14/18 10:42 AM, Faezeh Pousaneh wrote:
>
>> Thanks Justin. But I only define vdW potential form, coulomb potential
>> form
>> is as in Gromacs. So I would like to have electrostatic interactions as
>> other systems, so are
>>
>>    rlist                 = 0.9  (in nm)
>>    rcoulomb        = 0.9  (in nm)
>>
>> fine while I am using PME?
>>
>
> Again, there is no standard value here and it is dictated by the
> functional form being used. You have a custom interaction potential, even
> if you're using normal PME alongside you have user-defined, tabulated vdW
> interactions. Presumably there should be some evaluation of what cutoffs
> are used to satisfy whatever the assumptions are in the parametrization of
> your model, i.e. you need to have some target data of a known system that
> tells you that your physical model (cutoffs and functional form) is right,
> and then you use those same settings in whatever systems are of interest.
>
> -Justin
>
>
> Best regards
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 1/14/18 6:01 AM, Faezeh Pousaneh wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have a system of charged hard spheres (user-potential), where the vdW
>>>> cut-off should be diameter of my molecule 0.3479. I wonder if I chose
>>>> rlist
>>>> and rcoulomb correctly? (see below please)
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if anyone can tell you that. You're using custom
>>> potentials,
>>> so setting cutoffs is part of the parametrization of that potential
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
>>>
>>> integrator                = md
>>>
>>>>    dt                        = 0.001
>>>>    nsteps                    = 30000000
>>>>    nstxout                   = 100000           ; save coordinates
>>>> every 0
>>>> ps
>>>>    nstvout                   = 100000           ; save velocities every
>>>> 0
>>>> ps
>>>>    nstlog                    = 100000           ; update log file every
>>>>    nstenergy                 = 100000        ; save energies every
>>>>    nstxtcout                 = 100000       ; Output frequency for xtc
>>>> file
>>>>    xtc-precision             = 100000       ; precision for xtc file
>>>>    ns_type                   = grid        ; search neighboring grid
>>>> cells
>>>>    nstlist                   = 10           ;  fs
>>>>    pbc                       = xyz         ; 3-D PBC
>>>>    rlist                          = 0.9         ; short-range
>>>> neighbor-list
>>>> cutoff (in nm)
>>>>    rcoulomb                  = 0.9         ; short-range electrostatic
>>>> cutoff
>>>> (in nm)
>>>>    rvdw                      = 0.3479      ; short-range van der Waals
>>>> cutoff
>>>> (in nm)
>>>>    coulombtype               = PME-user         ; Particle Mesh Ewald
>>>> for
>>>> long-range electrostatics
>>>>    pme_order                 = 4           ; cubic interpolation
>>>>    fourierspacing            = 0.16        ; grid spacing for FFT
>>>>    vdw-type                  = user
>>>>    Tcoupl                    = berendsen   ; modified Berendsen
>>>> thermostat
>>>>    tc-grps                   = co2   rest           ; two coupling
>>>> groups -
>>>> more accurate
>>>>    tau_t                     =  0.1   0.1 ; time constant, in ps
>>>>    ref_t                     =  179.8  179.8 ; reference temperature,
>>>> one
>>>> for
>>>> each group, in K
>>>>    ;tc-grps                  = system
>>>> cutoff-scheme              =group
>>>>    energygrps                = co2 rest
>>>>    Pcoupl                    =  berendsen ;Parrinello-Rahman
>>>>    Pcoupltype                = Isotropic
>>>>    tau_p                     = 1.0
>>>>    compressibility           = 6.2e-5
>>>>    ref_p                     = 5500.0
>>>>    gen_vel                   = yes
>>>>    gen_temp                  = 179.8
>>>>    gen_seed                  = 712349
>>>>    DispCorr                  =no;  EnerPres    ; account for cut-off vdW
>>>> scheme
>>>>    constraints               = all-bonds   ; all bonds constrained
>>>> (fixed
>>>> length)
>>>>    continuation              = no         ; Restarting after NPT
>>>>    constraint-algorithm      =  lincs       ; holonomic constraints
>>>>    lincs_iter                = 1           ; accuracy of LINCS
>>>>    lincs_order               = 4           ; also related to accuracy
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
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