On 7/9/13 10:22 AM, ashish24294 wrote:
I am simulating one urea molecule in water and am struggling with it nvt.log
<http://gromacs.5086.x6.nabble.com/file/n5009701/nvt.log>



*The .mdp for energy minimization is*

; minim.mdp - used as input into grompp to generate em.tpr
; Parameters describing what to do, when to stop and what to save
integrator      = steep         ; Algorithm (steep = steepest descent 
minimization)
emtol           = 100.0         ; Stop minimization when the maximum force < 
1000.0
kJ/mol/nm
emstep          = 0.01          ; Energy step size
nsteps          = 50000         ; Maximum number of (minimization) steps to 
perform
energygrps      = URE

; Parameters describing how to find the neighbors of each atom and how to
calculate the interactions
nstlist         = 1             ; Frequency to update the neighbor list and 
long range forces
ns_type         = grid          ; Method to determine neighbor list (simple, 
grid)
rlist           = 1.0           ; Cut-off for making neighbor list (short range 
forces)
coulombtype     = PME           ; Treatment of long range electrostatic 
interactions
rcoulomb        = 1.0           ; Short-range electrostatic cut-off
rvdw            = 1.0           ; Short-range Van der Waals cut-off
pbc             = xyz           ; Periodic Boundary Conditions (yes/no)




/*And the nvt.mdp is:
*/
title       = UREA_in_WATER NVT equillibration

; Run parameters
integrator  = md        ; leap-frog integrator
nsteps      = 50000     ; 2 * 50000 = 100 ps
dt          = 0.002     ; 2 fs
; Output control
nstxout     = 100       ; save coordinates every 0.2 ps
nstvout     = 100       ; save velocities every 0.2 ps
nstenergy   = 100       ; save energies every 0.2 ps
nstlog      = 100       ; update log file every 0.2 ps
energygrps  = URE
; Bond parameters
continuation    = no            ; first dynamics run
constraint_algorithm = lincs    ; holonomic constraints
constraints     = all-bonds     ; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds)
constrained
lincs_iter      = 1             ; accuracy of LINCS
lincs_order     = 4             ; also related to accuracy
; Neighborsearching
ns_type     = grid      ; search neighboring grid cells
nstlist     = 5         ; 10 fs
rlist       = 0.75       ; short-range neighborlist cutoff (in nm)
rcoulomb    = 0.75       ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
rvdw        = 0.75       ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)

These cutoffs don't make sense for any of the force fields within Gromacs. This is the most likely source of instability outside the topology itself.

-Justin

; Electrostatics
coulombtype     = PME       ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range
electrostatics
pme_order       = 4         ; cubic interpolation
fourierspacing  = 0.16      ; grid spacing for FFT
; Temperature coupling
tcoupl      = V-rescale                     ; modified Berendsen thermostat
tc-grps     = URE_Water    ; two coupling groups - more accurate
tau_t       = 0.1                                     ; time constant, in ps
ref_t       = 300                       ; reference temperature, one for
each group, in K
; Pressure coupling
pcoupl      = no        ; no pressure coupling in NVT
; Periodic boundary conditions
pbc         = xyz       ; 3-D PBC
; Dispersion correction
DispCorr    = EnerPres  ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
; Velocity generation
gen_vel     = yes       ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
gen_temp    = 300       ; temperature for Maxwell distribution
gen_seed    = -1        ; generate a random seed

*The resultant nvt.log has been attached*



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