On 30/05/2012 5:33 PM, MD wrote:
Hi All,
I have to use the long range correction for VDW, in fact i used cut-off=1.4 nm for calculation of surface tension of TIP4P/2005, we can get 65 dyn. The .mdp i used are as follow, I really need to know how to get a surface tension of 69.5 dyn for TIP4P/2005 water model.

By finding the method that was used then and attempting to replicate it?

Becasue my surpervisor is so picky, everything should be perfacet, and i feel really tired by his way. Any comment will be greatly appreciated,

A certain degree of pickiness is essential. You're apparently trying to replicate a result by making some arbitrary choices. Don't.

This .mdp file generates velocities, thus did not start in an equilibrium ensemble. However you measured your surface tension needs to exclude the equilibration time.

Mark

The main parameter is

coulombtype = PME

rcoulomb-switch = 0

rcoulomb = 1.4

; Dielectric constant (DC) for cut-off or DC of reaction field

epsilon-r = 1

; Method for doing Van der Waals

vdw-type = Cut-off

; cut-off lengths

rvdw-switch = 0

rvdw = 3.8

; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure

DispCorr = EnerPres

; Extension of the potential lookup tables beyond the cut-off

table-extension = 1

; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid

fourierspacing = 0.12

The full .mdp are as follow,

;

; File 'mdout.mdp' was generated

; By user: spoel (291)

; On host: chagall

; At date: Mon Dec 15 13:13:06 2003

;

; VARIOUS PREPROCESSING OPTIONS

title = Yo

cpp = /usr/bin/cpp

include =

define =

; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS

integrator = md

; Start time and timestep in ps

tinit = 0

dt = 0.001

nsteps = 400000

; For exact run continuation or redoing part of a run

init_step = 0

; mode for center of mass motion removal

comm-mode = Linear

; number of steps for center of mass motion removal

nstcomm = 1

; group(s) for center of mass motion removal

comm-grps =

; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS OPTIONS

; Temperature, friction coefficient (amu/ps) and random seed

bd-fric = 0

ld-seed = 1993

; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS

; Force tolerance and initial step-size

; Max number of iterations in relax_shells

niter = 20

; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS

; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces (f)

nstxout = 5000

nstvout = 8000

nstfout = 8000

; Checkpointing helps you continue after crashes

nstcheckpoint = 1000

; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file

nstlog = 5000

nstenergy = 5000

; Output frequency and precision for xtc file

nstxtcout = 500

xtc-precision = 1000

; This selects the subset of atoms for the xtc file. You can

; select multiple groups. By default all atoms will be written.

xtc-grps =

; Selection of energy groups

energygrps =

; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS

; nblist update frequency

nstlist = 5

; ns algorithm (simple or grid)

ns_type = grid

; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz (default), no (vacuum)

; or full (infinite systems only)

pbc = xyz

; nblist cut-off

rlist = 1.4

domain-decomposition = no

; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW

; Method for doing electrostatics

coulombtype = PME

rcoulomb-switch = 0

rcoulomb = 1.4

; Dielectric constant (DC) for cut-off or DC of reaction field

epsilon-r = 1

; Method for doing Van der Waals

vdw-type = Cut-off

; cut-off lengths

rvdw-switch = 0

rvdw = 3.8

; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure

DispCorr = EnerPres

; Extension of the potential lookup tables beyond the cut-off

table-extension = 1

; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid

fourierspacing = 0.12

; FFT grid size, when a value is 0 fourierspacing will be used

fourier_nx = 0

fourier_ny = 0

fourier_nz = 0

; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters

pme_order = 4

ewald_rtol = 1e-05

ewald_geometry = 3d

epsilon_surface = 0

optimize_fft = no

; GENERALIZED BORN ELECTROSTATICS

; Algorithm for calculating Born radii

gb_algorithm = Still

; Frequency of calculating the Born radii inside rlist

nstgbradii = 1

; Cutoff for Born radii calculation; the contribution from atoms

; between rlist and rgbradii is updated every nstlist steps

rgbradii = 2

; Salt concentration in M for Generalized Born models

gb_saltconc = 0

; IMPLICIT SOLVENT (for use with Generalized Born electrostatics)

implicit_solvent = No

; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS

; Temperature coupling

Tcoupl = v-rescale

; Groups to couple separately

tc-grps = System

; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)

tau_t = 0.1

ref_t = 300

; Pressure coupling

Pcoupl = no

Pcoupltype = isotropic

; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar)

tau_p = 1

compressibility = 4.5e-5

ref_p = 1.0

; Random seed for Andersen thermostat

andersen_seed = 815131

; SIMULATED ANNEALING

; Type of annealing for each temperature group (no/single/periodic)

annealing = no

; Number of time points to use for specifying annealing in each group

annealing_npoints =

; List of times at the annealing points for each group

annealing_time =

; Temp. at each annealing point, for each group.

annealing_temp =

; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN

gen_vel = yes

gen_temp = 300

gen_seed = 1993

; OPTIONS FOR BONDS

constraints = none

; Type of constraint algorithm

constraint-algorithm = Lincs

; Do not constrain the start configuration

unconstrained-start = no

; Use successive overrelaxation to reduce the number of shake iterations

Shake-SOR = no

; Relative tolerance of shake

shake-tol = 1e-04

; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix

lincs-order = 4

; Number of iterations in the final step of LINCS. 1 is fine for

; normal simulations, but use 2 to conserve energy in NVE runs.

; For energy minimization with constraints it should be 4 to 8.

lincs-iter = 1

; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond

; rotates over more degrees than

lincs-warnangle = 30

; Convert harmonic bonds to morse potentials

morse = no

; ENERGY GROUP EXCLUSIONS

; Pairs of energy groups for which all non-bonded interactions are excluded

energygrp_excl =

; NMR refinement stuff

; Distance restraints type: No, Simple or Ensemble

disre = No

; Force weighting of pairs in one distance restraint: Conservative or Equal

disre-weighting = Conservative

; Use sqrt of the time averaged times the instantaneous violation

disre-mixed = no

disre-fc = 1000

disre-tau = 0

; Output frequency for pair distances to energy file

nstdisreout = 100

; Orientation restraints: No or Yes

orire = no

; Orientation restraints force constant and tau for time averaging

orire-fc = 0

orire-tau = 0

orire-fitgrp =

; Output frequency for trace(SD) to energy file

nstorireout = 100

; Dihedral angle restraints: No, Simple or Ensemble

dihre = No

dihre-fc = 1000

dihre-tau = 0

; Output frequency for dihedral values to energy file

nstdihreout = 100

; Free energy control stuff

free-energy = no

init-lambda = 0

delta-lambda = 0

sc-alpha = 0

sc-sigma = 0.3

; Non-equilibrium MD stuff

acc-grps =

accelerate =

freezegrps =

freezedim =

cos-acceleration = 0

; Electric fields

; Format is number of terms (int) and for all terms an amplitude (real)

; and a phase angle (real)

E-x =

E-xt =

E-y =

E-yt =

E-z =

E-zt =

; User defined thingies

user1-grps =

user2-grps =

userint1 = 0

userint2 = 0

userint3 = 0

userint4 = 0

userreal1 = 0

userreal2 = 0

userreal3 = 0

userreal4 = 0

The





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