Elisabeth wrote:


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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 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- Obtain total energy of a single molecule (use pbc).
        3- Subtract step 2 from step 1.
        4- Divide by simulation box volume.

        My questions is:

        in step 2 : what should be the box size? The same size as in 1
        or it does not matter? (step 1 is done for the actual denstiy)


    More troubling, how does one define the energy of a molecule?  If
    you use any sort of long-range algorithms (especially PME, but also
    dispersion correction), you can't simply decompose the system like this.

Thanks Justin and David.

I have been trying to find the article in which this has been presented. If you have time Please see page 5937, right column, equation 11. I think I made a mistake and I dont have to include kinetic energy, Only nonboded energies!?

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/jp0707539


What is cohesive energy and how does it relate to the quantity you're trying to calculate?

    In the derivation of recent Gromos96 parameter sets, the heat of
    vaporization is quite simple:

    DHvap = <Ugas> - <Uliq> + RT


1- So  <Uliq> is the total energy or only potential (no kinetic)

Potential.

2- How can I compute <Ugas>? I have liquid now...


Run a simulation in the gas phase.

-Justin


        Thank you,
        Regards,


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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

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