From: Blake Charlebois (bdc_at_mie.utoronto.ca)
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 23:54:04 CST
Suxing,
I don't have any experience with this kind of thing, but here are my
thoughts.
Does your periodic cell have a net charge of zero? I am under the impression
that simulations of periodic systems are not really valid unless the cell
has a net charge of zero. Otherwise, you are simulating an infinite lattice
of mutually-repulsive cells.
What is the length of your time step? It sounds as though your particles
experience high forces, and therefore high accelerations, so the velocity
accumulated over, say, 1 fs, might be high. I would expect that a
many-particle system needs to be simulated with a temporal resolution high
enough to resolve all particle collisions, since these collisions would
prevent huge velocity build-ups.
Blake
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From: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf
Of Brian Bennion
Sent: December 8, 2004 12:43 PM
To: Suxing Hu
Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: namd-l: Periodic cell size
Hello
Is your cell size big enough? It may be that a few of the particles are
outside the boundary box.
A more thoughtful answer though would include a discussion about the
applicability of PME to massively charged systems. However, I don't have
the experience discuss that...
Brian
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Suxing Hu wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I am using the NAMD to simulate ultracold plasmas, which basically consist
of
> all charged particles. Such a system is quite extended, normally have a
spatial
> size of 50umx50umx100um. I am testing for ~500 particles starting almost
from
> zero velocity, but it shows at the first time step the particle velocities
being
> huge (>10^15), and even nan (not a number).
>
> Are there any limits on the size of periodic cell in NAMD? PME is turned
on in
> my simulation tests.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Suxing Hu
>
>
>
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