Hi,

2015-06-24 13:47 GMT-06:00 Vitalie Botan <[email protected]>:
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to adopt KB-IBI method for a dilute polymer system with implicit
> solvent. Since the system is very dilute (only 3 polymers in a water box),
> the corresponding RDFs don't show any plateau in the long range in both AA
> and CG models. This fact poses the main problem in the standard IBI scheme -
> convergence is inherently slow and the relative error never gets better than
> 15-20%. The idea is to refine the best CG-approximation with the KB-IBI
> method to minimise the error at least to the values below 10%.
> I have few questions regarding the theory of KB-IBI implementation in VOTCA
> (I guess it's based on the JCTC paper from 2012) and some technical
> questions about its use with LAMMPS:
> 1) in the numerical integration of eq.1 (JCTC 2012) the cutoff value is the
> same as ramp-cutoff or they are unrelated? In my case I guess I have to use
> the same value of the cutoff;
They can be different, however the kb intergral depends on the rdf, so
if the ramp cutoff (inverse.post_update_options.kbibi.r_ramp inside
the non-bonded block) is bigger than max it becomes the same as max
efficiently.

> 2) the start and stop values for Gij averaging is defined as a plateau
> "width"?
Yes width = stop - start

> 3) the prefactor A value has to be converted to the corresponding units (i.e
> kcal/mol/angstrom)? My understanding is that it can be taken more or less
> arbitrarily.
Yes. We call it educated guessing.

> 4) how is the integral correction defined?
Not sure what your question is!

Christoph
>
> I would appreciate any hints or suggestions.
> Best regards,
>
> Vitaly
>
>
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