On 2011-01-19 18.36, Xiaohu Li wrote:
Hi, All,
I've found a bug in the NEMD calculation for viscosity. This has
been reviewed in /*Hess's paper at JCP 116 209 2002.*/
The version of gromacs I'm using is the development version.
Notice that this version correct a previous but of 4.5.3, where you uses
NEMD, both the term V(eq. 21 on Hess's paper) and 1/eta(shear viscosity
inverse) are supposed to be written to the *.edr file, however,
the 4.5.3 versions does not have this. This version can be retrieved at
http://repo.or.cz/w/gromacs.git/commit/c83de86d65ce7135be6cef15e9100d7516e6d9a7
*However, even this version is buggy since eta=A*rho/(V*k**2)(eq. 20
Hess's paper)*. *I have performed simulation and has found out that the
V and eta which are written in *edr file does not match according to the
formula, a little further check on the source code mdebin.c under the
directory src/mdlib shows that it is actually calculating
eta=A*Volume/(V*k**2) where density of rho should have been used. (This
is at line 755 of mdebin.c ).
I hope everyone who is using this can be aware of this, if you ever
used this code to produce data, the V is correct from *edr, however, you
need to manuelly get your eta using the above formula.
For the GMX developers, I hope anyone of you can correct this bug.
Thanks for pointing that out. There also is a small issue in that the
volume is computed for a rectangular box
vol = box[XX][XX]*box[YY][YY]*box[ZZ][ZZ];
dens = (tmass*AMU)/(vol*NANO*NANO*NANO);
which would be incorrect for a non-rectangular box. You should however
use a rectangular box for this kind of calculations, although this is
not enforced by grompp.
Xiaohu
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