Re: water sphere

From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2011 - 08:18:57 CST

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:14 AM, sara <sara_15_s_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I want to know the advantage of use water sphere instead of water box in details.

there is only one advantage: the simulation is faster since you don't
need to handle long range electrostatics.

> what is its usage? and when is better that I use of water sphere?

basically never, except for demonstration purposes or
when you actually want to model a nanodroplet.

axel.

> Sara

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.

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