Dear GROMACS users,

Currently I am experiencing a problem. At the moment I am trying to do a 
umbrella sampling with water going through a porous material. I have generate 
the configuration based on CV direction (1,1,1).

However when I watch the movie back for individual simulation. I see the water 
molecules fly beyond the area where I want to sample. I have tried using flat 
bottom potential on the water molecule and increasing k value up to 500,000 kJ 
mol-1, but it still flying away. Hence can any body suggest me how to solve 
this?

Now I am wondering, how does the umbrella sampling does the job? because after 
all this simulation, now I doubting that the spring potential applied at water 
Center of Mass position. In the movie file, it seems to me that the spring 
potential are attached to the Center of Mass of the whole system (water and the 
porous material), I hope I am wrong here. I have double check my index file as 
well and there isn't any naming error.

The input for the pull file as follow:

;Pull code

pull = yes
;pull_cylinder_r = 0.5
pull-ngroups = 2
pull-ncoords = 1
pull-group1-name = water
pull-group2-name = MOL
pull-coord1-type = umbrella ; harmonic biasing force
pull-coord1-geometry = direction-periodic; simple distance increase, 
direction-periodic
pull-coord1-vec = 1 1 1
pull-coord1-groups = 1 2
;pull-coord1-dim = Y Y Y
pull-coord1-rate = 0.00 ; 0.01 nm per ps = 10 nm per ns
pull-coord1-k = 25000 ; kJ mol^-1 nm^-2
pull-coord1-start = yes ; define initial COM distance > 0


Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Ben
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