Dear Gromacs friends,

I am running some simulations of a hexane/ethanol mixture in a box, using a United-Atom OPLS model. My Gromacs version is the 4.5.5.

I fill the simulation box with genbox (I have also used an equilibrated pdb file generated by other simulation code), and I run a energy minimization simulation, wich gives the following energies for the final configuration:

   Energies (kJ/mol)
Angle Fourier Dih. LJ-14 Coulomb-14 LJ (SR) 6.62915e+00 5.17493e+02 -2.61388e+01 0.00000e+00 -4.01422e+03 Disper. corr. Coulomb (SR) RF excl. Potential Pres. DC (bar) -9.65799e+01 0.00000e+00 0.00000e+00 -3.61282e+03 0.00000e+00

Potential Energy  = -3.6128213e+03
Maximum force     =  2.7169607e+01 on atom 541
Norm of force     =  3.9986315e+00

I take the final configuration, and using exactly the same force field definition and simulation parameters (cutoff radious, electrostatic method, etc), I start a molecular dynamics simulation in the NVE ensemble. No matter what I do, I always have a blow-up problem. I have checked all the points that could be giving the problem, in particular the ones given here:

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up

and I have also tried to modify one by one different parameters, but I never succeed to obtain a running simulation. I have seen that I always have a much larger energy at the beginning of the simulation than the energy at the end of the minimization:

   Energies (kJ/mol)
Angle Fourier Dih. LJ-14 Coulomb-14 LJ (SR) 5.43743e+04 2.06120e+03 6.02532e+01 0.00000e+00 1.62817e+07 Disper. corr. Coulomb (SR) RF excl. Potential Kinetic En. -9.65799e+01 0.00000e+00 0.00000e+00 1.63381e+07 1.65906e+10 Total Energy Temperature Pres. DC (bar) Pressure (bar) Constr. rmsd
    1.66069e+10

but the potential energy should be exactly the same in both cases, as it only depends on the atomic positions. Anybody can tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
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