Darrell Koskinen wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if you could tell me if pressure coupling is always
required in a simulation?
Trivially, no. If you want to compare with experimental data from an NPT
ensemble, then it might be a good idea.
The reason I am asking is because when I run
my simulation with pressure coupling disabled my simulation completes
without any warnings, but when I run my simulation with pressure
coupling enabled I experience a segmentation fault and am presented with
the following message:
Warning: 1-4 interaction between 27252 and 28244 at distance 2.183 which
is larger than the 1-4 table size 2.000 nm
These are ignored for the rest of the simulation
This usually means your system is exploding,
if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file
Most likely, you didn't equilibrate at the right density for your
desired pressure. So, the change in volume required for NPT was too
large for the integration step you were using. This also suggests your
NVT simulation might not correlate with reality either. See
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Steps_to_Perform_a_Simulation
or probably various tutorials.
In my simulation, I have an infinite graphene sheet parallel to the
xy-plane and thought that maybe the pressure coupling is causing extreme
pressure to build up within the graphene sheet. Could this be the case?
Certainly, if the pressure coupling is isotropic (or at least on in the
xy-plane) and the box wants to resize noticeably, you'd have to stretch
the bonds and that will lead to instability. If the bonds are
constrained then the system is intrinsically unstable.
If this is the case, then can I simply run my simulation with pressure
coupling turned off or is pressure coupling required?
That's your job to determine given whatever science you're trying to do.
Mark
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