Am 2. Januar 2012 15:18 schrieb Javier Ramos <[email protected]>:
> Thank you very much for your answers.
>
> Concerning the second question. I understood from the Espresso manual
> that the force is, as you say, U'(r)/r being the r the distance
> between two beads in the case of tabulated non-bonded potentials.
> However, in the case of tabulated angle potentials I am not be able to
> understand the meaning of r. Which is the r that I have to use?. Or
> the second column is just U'(theta)/theta in radians?
I am not sure, see here:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/espressomd.git/tree/src/tab.h#n628>

I guess, that is a good question for the espresso mailing list:
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=espressomd>

Christoph
>
> I hope do not disturb you with these questions and again thank you
> very much for your kindly help and patience.
>
> Best regards,
> Javi
>
> On 2 ene, 20:43, Christoph Junghans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Am 2. Januar 2012 07:19 schrieb Javier Ramos <[email protected]>:> Happy new 
>> year everybody,
>>
>> > Christoph thanks for your reply, it was very useful for me.
>>
>> > I have a couple of new questions. In the propane tutorial, there is a
>> > folder for ibi_espresso, in which the table_a1.tab file is located.
>>
>> > By comparing this file with the table_a1.xvg file in the ibi folder,
>> > it rises two new questions.
>>
>> >  i) The third column in table_a1.tab is the same potential than in the
>> > second column (in kJ/mol) of the table_a1.xvg file. Do should not the
>> > third column in table_a1.tab be in kT (reduced) units?
>>
>> Yes, but in that tutorial we choose sigma to be 1nm and epsilon to be 1 
>> kJ/mol.
>>
>> >  ii) I am not able to reproduce the second column of table_a1.tab from
>> > direct differentiation of the third column respect to the first one
>> > after appropriated change of units?
>>
>> Well, Espresso is special. The second column is the value of the Force
>> (U'(r)/r) and not just U'(r). Mind the difference.
>>
>> > An additional request, may you provide the files to perform the
>> > propane MD atomistic simulation in future versions of VOTCA tutorials
>> > as you provide the atomistic simulation files for the hexane example?
>>
>> I have to look if we find that data.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Best regards,
>> > Javi
>>
>> > On 20 dic 2011, 16:50, Christoph Junghans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Am 20. Dezember 2011 03:49 schrieb Javier Ramos <[email protected]>:> I 
>> >> am trying to perform the simulation with the propane example in the
>> >> > tutorials. I have two questions concerning the table_a1.xvg file
>> >> > containing the tabulated potential.
>>
>> >> >  i) The second column contains the potential, I am assuming that the
>> >> > units are in kJ/mol (gromacs units), is that correct?
>>
>> >> Yes, correct!
>>
>> >> >  ii) The third column (force) is zero in the whole angle interval.
>> >> > Why?
>>
>> >> Gromacs calculates the forces internally if all forces are zero.
>> >> In case you give forces, it will warn you if the force deviate too
>> >> much from the calculates ones.
>>
>> >> A side note: VOTCA (csg_boltzmann,csg_stat) calculates in rad, while
>> >> gromacs uses degree.
>>
>> >> Christoph
>>
>> >> > Best regards,
>> >> > Javi
>>
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