[gmx-users] speed of sound in liquid

2013-04-10 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, Does anyone know how to obtain speed of sound, c, in a liquid? c is defined as square root of dP/drho (pressure change with density) at constant entropy My idea is to run a series of NPT simulations to obtain density at each P, to get dP/drho. However, I am not sure how to ensure a

[gmx-users] surface tension-crash at step 0

2013-04-05 Thread Elisabeth
into the evacuated region. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Elisabeth katesed...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Moura, Thank you for your answer. I equilibrated the cell under NPT and then extended the Z direction to get a surface. Since I run NVT and Z is extended, I see no pressure dependence and surface

Re: [gmx-users] Re: surface tension-crash at step 0

2013-04-05 Thread Elisabeth
Hi Vitaly, To get surface tension one needs to extend Z to get a surface. From bulk it is not possible to create a surface. My problem is NVT crashes at step 0 and no energies or any other output file is written... On 5 April 2013 10:25, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,

Re: [gmx-users] Re: surface tension-crash at step 0

2013-04-05 Thread Elisabeth
On 5 April 2013 16:34, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: But you have conf.gro On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Elisabeth katesed...@gmail.com wrote: Well I am not getting the trajectory. Simulation crashes before any step is calculated :( On 5 April 2013 11:20, Dr. Vitaly

Re: [gmx-users] surface tension

2013-04-04 Thread Elisabeth
into the box and not from an external pressure bath (I would stick to NVT for such a model). Among the possible issue you might face, the gas would probably be partially miscible in the liquid phase for high pressures. I hope it helps. cheers Andre On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Elisabeth

[gmx-users] surface tension

2013-04-03 Thread Elisabeth
Hello all, Does anyone know how one can study the effect of pressure on surface tension of pure liquids? Thanks, -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at

[gmx-users] g_density: Segmentation fault

2013-04-02 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I am trying to get the density profile for my liquid-vacuum interface using g_density -f trr -s tpr however g_density gives Segmentation fault. Does anyone had clue what could be wrong? Please comment, Thanks. Group 0 ( System) has XXX elements Group 1 (

Re: [gmx-users] g_density: Segmentation fault

2013-04-02 Thread Elisabeth
Hi Justin, Do I have to read less frames to circumvent the problem? I know g_density has been used for this purpose so there should be a way to resolve this. I am reading 1000 frames... Thanks On 2 April 2013 12:40, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 4/2/13 11:57 AM, Elisabeth wrote

Re: [gmx-users] Re: density profile

2013-04-01 Thread Elisabeth
Elisabeth - The only explanation is that you actually DID NOT extend the box in Z direction. Look at the last line of confout.gro. g_density -d Z gives you a [local] density versus Z coordinate. Dr. Vitaly Chaban On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Elisabeth katesed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Vitaly

Re: [gmx-users] Re: density profile

2013-04-01 Thread Elisabeth
does not read either MDP, or GRO, or TOP, or anything except CPT. Dr. Vitaly Chaban On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Elisabeth katesed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi vitaly, The initial structure is indeed extended but the final output.gro is not. I think its because I am using the cpt file from

[gmx-users] density profile

2013-03-31 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, In order to get density profile of a pure system the box has to get extended in one drection (e.g Z) as we do for surface tension calculations or density profile can be also obtained from the usual box filled up with the molecules without need for empty space in Z Thanks for any

Re: [gmx-users] density profile

2013-03-31 Thread Elisabeth
cells provides the profile I am after. Do you have any clue whether or not the cell has to be extended in one direction to obtain the density profile? Thanks! On 31 March 2013 12:21, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 3/31/13 11:41 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Dear all, In order to get

Re: [gmx-users] density profile

2013-03-31 Thread Elisabeth
* *ref_p = 50 ** * gen_vel = no gen_temp= 500.0 gen_seed= 173529 constraints = none constraint-algorithm = lincs On 31 March 2013 12:47, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 3/31/13 12:27 PM, Elisabeth wrote: Thank

Re: [gmx-users] Re: density profile

2013-03-31 Thread Elisabeth
Thanks Vitaly. I am wondering what is the use of semiisotropic with 0 compressibility in Z then? I was hoping to run NPT to secure a fixed pressure. I also wanted to know if surface tension can be also calculated under NVT (if NPT fails for this puporse) Thanks! On 31 March 2013 14:01, Dr.

[gmx-users] semi isotropic settings

2013-03-30 Thread Elisabeth
Hi all, I wanted to use Pcoupltype = semiisotropicbut I am not clear about the compressibility settings if I want to keep Z directions fixed in my system and letting X and Y change. Which case 1 or 2 is correct for semi isotropic option? 1) compressibility = 3.5e-5 3.5e-5 0 2

Re: [gmx-users] semi isotropic settings

2013-03-30 Thread Elisabeth
Hi Justin, The corect value is 3.5e-5 but I thoiugh x/y means the ratio od these two. If thats nto the case I guess compressibility = 3.5e-5 0 is the correct value. What do you think? On 30 March 2013 11:41, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 3/30/13 11:39 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Hi

[gmx-users] surface tension-density profile

2013-03-29 Thread Elisabeth
Deal all, I am trying to build up my alkane system to calculate the surface tension a fixed pressure. Here are the steps: 1- First I did a 10 ns NPT to equilibrate the box and used the last frame gro and cpt file as input for the next step 2- I extended the box in Z to more than twice the

Re: [gmx-users] Shift functions

2012-02-11 Thread Elisabeth
On 10 February 2012 09:41, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 11/02/2012 1:19 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Hello all, Does the shift function use group based truncation? See the discussion of charge groups in manual section 3.4.2. Thanks Mark. -1- First of all if I am right

[gmx-users] Shift functions

2012-02-10 Thread Elisabeth
Hello all, Does the shift function use group based truncation? In the manual I see: by using shifted forces there is no need for charge groups (=group based?!) in the neighbor list? Can anyone shed some light on calculation of shifted forces? Thanks, Eli -- gmx-users mailing list

Re: [gmx-users] Shift functions

2012-02-10 Thread Elisabeth
Hello all, Does the shift function use group based truncation? See the discussion of charge groups in manual section 3.4.2. Thanks Mark. -1- First of all if I am right charge groups in gromacs language in identical to group based truncations? Manual 342: This reduces the cut-off

[gmx-users] Equilibration of polymer chains- gauche defects

2012-02-09 Thread Elisabeth
Hi all, Can you please guide me how one can calculate fraction of gauche+ and gauche- defects in the center of a polymer chain? Appreciate you help. Juliete -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at

[gmx-users] phase transition in MD simulation

2011-09-13 Thread Elisabeth
Dear experts, I am working on a pure polymer melt system under NPT and at a given T, pressure is increased up to around 1000 bar. However, the phase diagram of the polymer is indicating that at this T, as pressure is increased to above 500 bar, system falls below the melting point. I mean I am

[gmx-users] index file subgroups

2011-08-24 Thread Elisabeth
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to plot or obtain the average values of Gyration radius from different subgroups of index file. index file prompts for a single group and I need to calculate the averages for all subgroup by hand. Is there any way to compute averages or plot all subgroups

Re: [gmx-users] NPT - density off

2011-08-20 Thread Elisabeth
On 20 August 2011 21:20, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 20/08/2011 8:02 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Dear experts, I am intending to calculate the equilibrium density of a pure hydrocarbon at different pressures , at 425 K. The normal boiling point of the liquid is around 350 K

[gmx-users] NPT - density off

2011-08-19 Thread Elisabeth
Dear experts, I am intending to calculate the equilibrium density of a pure hydrocarbon at different pressures , at 425 K. The normal boiling point of the liquid is around 350 K. For pressures below 100 bar densities I am getting from NPT is in accurate. I start form a structure which is

Re: [gmx-users] berendsen P coupling and fluctuation properties

2011-08-16 Thread Elisabeth
getting from my runs are unreliable? Appreciate any clarification. Thank you, Best, On 15 August 2011 19:34, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 16/08/2011 7:05 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Dear all, I noticed that applying Parrinello-Rahman (PR) pressure coupling even after

Re: [gmx-users] berendsen P coupling and fluctuation properties

2011-08-16 Thread Elisabeth
apply berendsen barostat combined with v-rescale thermostat to equilibrate or since I am using berendsen barostat, T coupling scheme has to be also berendsen? Thanks, On 16 August 2011 13:17, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote:f Hello, Thank you. I am looking

[gmx-users] berendsen P coupling and fluctuation properties

2011-08-15 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I noticed that applying Parrinello-Rahman (PR) pressure coupling even after equilibration with berendsen does not lead to target value for pressure when ;Bonds constraints = none is used. I tried Berendsen for to get fixed pressure ( 50 bar) but in the next run PR

[gmx-users] Re: Heat of Vaporization

2011-08-03 Thread Elisabeth
On 3 August 2011 15:31, Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Elisabeth katesed...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 August 2011 15:29, Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I wanted to know your ideas on calculation of heat

[gmx-users] Heat of Vaporization

2011-08-02 Thread Elisabeth
Hello, I wanted to know your ideas on calculation of heat of vaporization using a single phase run rather than running two separate simulations for liquid and gas! 1- Two separate simulations for liquid and gas DHvap = Ugas - Uliq + RT 1a: total liquid potential - *total* potential of a single

Re: [gmx-users] OPLSAA parameters

2011-07-31 Thread Elisabeth
: Elisabeth wrote: Thanks Justin for your guidance. By following your tips, I have now all the parameters I need... Please let me know if I am missing any [ angletypes ] or [ dihedraltypes ] for a hydrocarbon molecule. Seems fine to me; grompp will complain if something is missing

[gmx-users] citation

2011-07-29 Thread Elisabeth
Hello all, Can anyone tell me how gromacs may be cited besides Principal Papers 1. Berendsen, et al. (1995) *Comp. Phys. Comm.* *91: *43-56. (DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/0010-4655%2895%2900042-E_, Citations of this paperhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=6703762643559347673hl=en

[gmx-users] OPLSAA parameters

2011-07-29 Thread Elisabeth
Hello to all, I am looking for bonded and nonbonded parameters for C H atoms in saturated hydrocarbons. atom types are: Carbon atoms opls_135 opls_136 H opls_140 opls_135 12.01100 ; alkane CH3 opls_136 12.01100 ; alkane CH2 opls_1401.00800 ; alkane H. Please help me out

Re: [gmx-users] error: Only triclinic boxes...

2011-06-05 Thread Elisabeth
On 3 June 2011 03:25, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 3/06/2011 3:06 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Hello all, I am getting the error below at the very beginning of the simulation (both serial and parallel). I am sure I did not encounter this problem before with the same input files

[gmx-users] error: Only triclinic boxes...

2011-06-02 Thread Elisabeth
Hello all, I am getting the error below at the very beginning of the simulation (both serial and parallel). I am sure I did not encounter this problem before with the same input files. This has just happened now. I really have no clue why this is happening. could you please help me? Thank you all

Re: [gmx-users] error: Only triclinic boxes...

2011-06-02 Thread Elisabeth
Hello Justin, Thank you. I am using gmxdump -s *.tpr -om to produce mdout.mdp file but I dont see box vector information. This error happens at the very beginning. I see no steps are calculated. On 2 June 2011 13:11, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: Hello all

Re: [gmx-users] error: Only triclinic boxes...

2011-06-02 Thread Elisabeth
have been using the same gro file before and never got such error). Do you recommend I reinstall 4.5.4 ? Appreciate any help... Regards, On 2 June 2011 14:47, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: Hello Justin, Thank you. I am using gmxdump -s *.tpr -om to produce

[gmx-users] compression to study pressure effect

2011-06-01 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I am trying to study the effect of pressure on total potential of my system (8 polymer chains). My problem is that I dont see a systematic effect of pressure on potentials and I cant judge if different pressures increase or decrease potential. This is the critical observable in my

[gmx-users] compressing with NPT

2011-05-23 Thread Elisabeth
Dear experts, I have been considering effect of fixing bond lengths in my system (constraints= none / all-bonds) on equilibrated density using NPT runs with 4.5.4. I am showing two set of results for two ref pressures of 10 and 70 bar. in case of constraints= none I had to employ a 0.5 fs

Re: [gmx-users] NPT for compressing

2011-05-21 Thread Elisabeth
On 20 May 2011 23:04, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 21/05/2011 10:45 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Dear experts, I have a box of pure hexane with density of around 50 SI (size 7nm). With the settings below I get error: vol 0.65 imb F 3% step 42100, will finish Fri May 20 18:54

Re: [gmx-users] NPT for compressing

2011-05-21 Thread Elisabeth
On 21 May 2011 19:02, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: On 20 May 2011 23:04, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au mailto: mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 21/05/2011 10:45 AM, Elisabeth wrote: Dear experts, I have a box of pure hexane

[gmx-users] NPT for compressing

2011-05-20 Thread Elisabeth
Dear experts, I have a box of pure hexane with density of around 50 SI (size 7nm). With the settings below I get error: vol 0.65 imb F 3% step 42100, will finish Fri May 20 18:54:05 2011 Warning: 1-4 interaction between 1246 and 1249 at distance 3.580 which is larger than the 1-4 table size

[gmx-users] How to freeze groups

2011-05-11 Thread Elisabeth
Hello, Can anyone suggest some tutorials or sample top files for simulations involving freezing of groups? I dont see much info in chapter 5 of manual. Thanks, -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at

Re: [gmx-users] multicomponent system- units

2011-04-27 Thread Elisabeth
? Please guide me, I am stuck on this.. Thanks, On 9 April 2011 20:56, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 8/04/2011 12:18 PM, Elisabeth wrote: Hello everyone, I have encountered a simple problem. For a homogenous system what g_energy reports is dependent on the system size

Re: [gmx-users] multicomponent system- units

2011-04-11 Thread Elisabeth
case using -nmol gives per mol energies and somehow predict AB from them? Does this make sense? Please guide me, I am stuck on this.. Thanks, On 9 April 2011 20:56, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 8/04/2011 12:18 PM, Elisabeth wrote: Hello everyone, I have encountered a simple

[gmx-users] multicomponent system- units

2011-04-07 Thread Elisabeth
Hello everyone, I have encountered a simple problem. For a homogenous system what g_energy reports is dependent on the system size and one needs to use -nmol option to divide energies by number of molecules to obtain per mol values. I am attempting to extract interaction energies between species

[gmx-users] PME

2011-04-06 Thread Elisabeth
Hello Justin, Several days ago you answered my question about calculating nonbonded terms: Question: If I want to look at nonboded interactions only, do I have to add Coul. recip. to [ LJ (SR) + Coulomb (SR) ] ? Answer: The PME-related terms contain both solute-solvent, solvent-solvent, and

Re: [gmx-users] PME

2011-04-06 Thread Elisabeth
On 6 April 2011 15:01, Michael Brunsteiner mbx0...@yahoo.com wrote: Elisabeth, You CAN, in fact calculate the contribution of the reciprocal part of the PME energy to the binding energy between two components in a heterogeneous system, its just quite tedious... say, your system

Re: [gmx-users] PME

2011-04-06 Thread Elisabeth
On 6 April 2011 19:28, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: On 6 April 2011 15:01, Michael Brunsteiner mbx0...@yahoo.com mailto: mbx0...@yahoo.com wrote: Elisabeth, You CAN, in fact calculate the contribution of the reciprocal part of the PME energy

Re: [gmx-users] Heat of vap

2011-04-03 Thread Elisabeth
Elisabeth wrote: Dear David, I followed your instructions and calculated Heat of vaporization of my alkane once with one molecule in gas phase (no cutoff) and once with equivalent number of molecules as in liquid phase as Justin suggested. Results are as follows: To get heat

[gmx-users] Heat of vap

2011-04-02 Thread Elisabeth
Dear David, I followed your instructions and calculated Heat of vaporization of my alkane once with one molecule in gas phase (no cutoff) and once with equivalent number of molecules as in liquid phase as Justin suggested. Results are as follows: *one single molecule in gas phase* Energy

Re: [gmx-users] Heat of vap

2011-03-31 Thread Elisabeth
in your mail: On 30 March 2011 15:30, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: Dear all, I intend to obtain vaporization heat per volume for a /pure alkane system/. Here is the steps I am taking. Please correct me. 1- Obtain total energy of system (kinetic+potential

Re: [gmx-users] Heat of vap

2011-03-31 Thread Elisabeth
On 31 March 2011 12:58, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: in your mail: On 30 March 2011 15:30, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto: jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: Dear all, I intend to obtain vaporization heat per volume

[gmx-users] index file

2011-03-30 Thread Elisabeth
Dear gromacs users, I am planning to produce C-C rdf for my system and I have difficulty making the index file with a group of all C in the system, [Carbon] . .If there are thousands of atoms in the system do I have to go through the top file and note down C atom numbers and use those numbers to

[gmx-users] Thermal expansion coeff.

2011-03-30 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I asked this question a few days ago but did not receive a solid answer. Has anyone tried to produce the properties below? Can you comment on accuracy of these properties using g_energy? Thermal expansion coeff. (NPT): Enthalpy, Vol, Temp Isothermal compressibility:

[gmx-users] Heat of vap

2011-03-30 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I intend to obtain vaporization heat per volume for a *pure alkane system*. Here is the steps I am taking. Please correct me. 1- Obtain total energy of system (kinetic+potential) and divide by number of molecules to obtain energy per mol of molecules. g_energy -f *.edr -nmol XXX 2-

Re: [gmx-users] heat capacity in 4.5.3 and 4.0.7

2011-03-27 Thread Elisabeth
Thanks David for replying me. I appreciate your attention to comment on the following short inquiries. 1- g_energy says: you will need to give the number of constraints per molecule –nconstr and for water this is 3. Can you elaborate on how to set this option. When constraints=

[gmx-users] heat capacity in 4.5.3 and 4.0.7

2011-03-26 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I am trying to calculate Cv of a pure alkane 125 molecules with actual density, and here is what I have done: 1- Cv: Run NVT g_energyselect T and Etot=total energy As I issue g_energy *.edr Heat Capacity Cv: 12.4787 J/mol K (factor = 0.000369503) And when I choose –nmol

[gmx-users] surface tension vs. system size

2011-03-24 Thread Elisabeth
Dear all, I performed surface tension calculations vs. different system size (NVT, mdp file is included at the end). The reported surface tension for hydrocarbon I am studying is 18 mN/m at 20C. I am getting ~ 175 bar nm from g_energy which means surface tension of around 9 mN/m. For box size 3

Re: [gmx-users] unit of surface tension, KJ/mol?

2011-03-23 Thread Elisabeth
Thanks for your help. :) On 23 March 2011 07:47, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Mark Abraham wrote: On 23/03/2011 3:39 PM, Elisabeth wrote: Thanks Mark for the hints. I am using a pre equilibrated box for both runs. Can you again explain how Can I interpret this from

Re: [gmx-users] unit of surface tension, KJ/mol?

2011-03-22 Thread Elisabeth
On 22 March 2011 22:31, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: Hello, I did two simulations on the same system using versions 4.0.7 and 4.5.3. It seems like the unit of surface tension is not the same in these versions because I am getting ~250 KJ/mol an in 4.0.7

Re: [gmx-users] unit of surface tension, KJ/mol?

2011-03-22 Thread Elisabeth
On 22 March 2011 22:46, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: On 22 March 2011 22:31, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto: jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: Hello, I did two simulations on the same system using versions 4.0.7

Re: [gmx-users] unit of surface tension, KJ/mol?

2011-03-22 Thread Elisabeth
, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 23/03/11, *Elisabeth * katesed...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 March 2011 22:46, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth wrote: On 22 March 2011 22:31, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto: jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Elisabeth

[gmx-users] surface tension

2011-03-14 Thread Elisabeth
- my last question is how can I make sure surface tension reported by g_energy is the equilibrated one. RMSD is very big compared to surf. ten. ! Thanks for your time. Elisabeth ** if you are interested in the surface tension of a pure liquid, which I

[gmx-users] Re: surface tension

2011-03-14 Thread Elisabeth
dimension? then how much increase in one direction is reasonable? (If I have a 2 nm box). Also Can you please introduce some text book? Thank you, Best regards, 2011/3/15 André Farias de Moura mo...@ufscar.br Dear Elisabeth, actually, it is the other way around, you need increase the box length

[gmx-users] surface tension in gmx

2011-03-09 Thread Elisabeth
Dear gmx users, Since I am new to surface tension topic I need to ask very trivial questions. Please help me out with these simple questions. As a starting point I am going to calculate surface tension of a pure alkane in a cubic box and compare with experimental values. 1- g_energy is giving