Re: [ESPResSo-users] Thermostat

[Ulf Schiller]

Muhammad Anwar wrote:
> Hi,
> Dear Users,
> I am using Langevin thermostat, and i am trying to set the temperature 
> of the MD simulation 300 K, I entered the thermostat as
> 
> thermostat langevin 300 1.0
> 
> then to check the temperature
> set Temp [expr [analyze energy 
> kinetic]/$n_part/([degrees_of_freedom]/2.0)]  // No rotation just 
> translaional dof are included.
> 
> puts -nonewline "run $i at time=$time,  Temp= $Temp (2.3566e-09), tempe= 
> [setmd temperature] (300.0)"
> 
> They both have different values, should not they be same?
> 
> Secondly i used temp in KT by putting
> set T 300
> set kT [expr $T * 1.38e-23/epsilon(kcal/mol)]
> thermostat langevin  $kT 1.0
> i found following message
> 
> Failed upon creating one of the monomers in Espresso!
> Aborting...
> 
> Can anybody help in setting the temperature? Thank you very much.

Hi,

please review Axel's earlier message on the unit system
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/espressomd-users/2011-04/msg00001.html

This link may also be helpful:
http://books.google.com/books?id=XmyO2oRUg0cC&lpg=PP1&ots=Zx_BV4j1yS&dq=frenkel%20smit&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false

Regards,
Ulf

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