lammps/doc/fix_npt_sphere.txt

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fix npt/sphere command :h3

[Syntax:]

fix ID group-ID npt/sphere keyword value ... :pre

ID, group-ID are documented in "fix"_fix.html command
npt/sphere = style name of this fix command
additional thermostat and barostat related keyword/value pairs from the "fix npt"_fix_nh.html command can be appended :ul

[Examples:]

fix 1 all npt/sphere temp 300.0 300.0 100.0 iso 0.0 0.0 1000.0
fix 2 all npt/sphere temp 300.0 300.0 100.0 x 5.0 5.0 1000.0
fix 2 all npt/sphere temp 300.0 300.0 100.0 x 5.0 5.0 1000.0 drag 0.2
fix 2 water npt/sphere temp 300.0 300.0 100.0 aniso 0.0 0.0 1000.0 dilate partial :pre

[Description:]

Perform constant NPT integration to update position, velocity, and
angular velocity each timestep for extended spherical particles in the
group using a Nose/Hoover temperature thermostat and Nose/Hoover
pressure barostat.  P is pressure; T is temperature.  This creates a
system trajectory consistent with the isothermal-isobaric ensemble.

This fix differs from the "fix npt"_fix_nh.html command, which
assumes point particles and only updates their position and velocity.

The thermostat is applied to both the translational and rotational
degrees of freedom for the spherical particles, assuming a compute is
used which calculates a temperature that includes the rotational
degrees of freedom (see below).  The translational degrees of freedom
can also have a bias velocity removed from them before thermostatting
takes place; see the description below.

Additional parameters affecting the thermostat and barostat are
specified by keywords and values documented with the "fix
npt"_fix_nh.html command.  See, for example, discussion of the {temp},
{iso}, {aniso}, and {dilate} keywords.

The particles in the fix group are the only ones whose velocities and
positions are updated by the velocity/position update portion of the
NPT integration.

Regardless of what particles are in the fix group, a global pressure is
computed for all particles.  Similarly, when the size of the simulation
box is changed, all particles are re-scaled to new positions, unless the
keyword {dilate} is specified with a value of {partial}, in which case
only the particles in the fix group are re-scaled.  The latter can be
useful for leaving the coordinates of particles in a solid substrate
unchanged and controlling the pressure of a surrounding fluid.

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This fix computes a temperature and pressure each timestep.  To do
this, the fix creates its own computes of style "temp/sphere" and 
"pressure", as if these commands had been issued:

compute fix-ID_temp all temp/sphere
compute fix-ID_press all pressure fix-ID_temp :pre

See the "compute temp/sphere"_compute_temp_sphere.html and "compute
pressure"_compute_pressure.html commands for details.  Note that the
IDs of the new computes are the fix-ID + underscore + "temp" or fix_ID
+ underscore + "press", and the group for the new computes is "all"
since pressure is computed for the entire system.

Note that these are NOT the computes used by thermodynamic output (see
the "thermo_style"_thermo_style.html command) with ID = {thermo_temp}
and {thermo_press}.  This means you can change the attributes of this
fix's temperature or pressure via the
"compute_modify"_compute_modify.html command or print this temperature
or pressure during thermodynamic output via the "thermo_style
custom"_thermo_style.html command using the appropriate compute-ID.
It also means that changing attributes of {thermo_temp} or
{thermo_press} will have no effect on this fix.

Like other fixes that perform thermostatting, this fix can be used
with "compute commands"_compute.html that calculate a temperature
after removing a "bias" from the atom velocities.  E.g. removing the
center-of-mass velocity from a group of atoms or only calculating
temperature on the x-component of velocity or only calculating
temperature for atoms in a geometric region.  This is not done by
default, but only if the "fix_modify"_fix_modify.html command is used
to assign a temperature compute to this fix that includes such a bias
term.  See the doc pages for individual "compute
commands"_compute.html to determine which ones include a bias.  In
this case, the thermostat works in the following manner: the current
temperature is calculated taking the bias into account, bias is
removed from each atom, thermostatting is performed on the remaining
thermal degrees of freedom, and the bias is added back in.

[Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info:]

This fix writes the state of the Nose/Hoover thermostat and barostat
to "binary restart files"_restart.html.  See the
"read_restart"_read_restart.html command for info on how to re-specify
a fix in an input script that reads a restart file, so that the
operation of the fix continues in an uninterrupted fashion.

The "fix_modify"_fix_modify.html {temp} and {press} options are
supported by this fix.  You can use them to assign a
"compute"_compute.html you have defined to this fix which will be used
in its thermostatting or barostatting procedure.  If you do this, note
that the kinetic energy derived from the compute temperature should be
consistent with the virial term computed using all atoms for the
pressure.  LAMMPS will warn you if you choose to compute temperature
on a subset of atoms.

The "fix_modify"_fix_modify.html {energy} option is supported by this
fix to add the energy change induced by Nose/Hoover thermostatting and
barostatting to the system's potential energy as part of
"thermodynamic output"_thermo_style.html.

This fix computes the same global scalar and global vector of
quantities as does the "fix npt"_fix_nh.html command.

This fix can ramp its target temperature and pressure over multiple
runs, using the {start} and {stop} keywords of the "run"_run.html
command.  See the "run"_run.html command for details of how to do
this.

This fix is not invoked during "energy minimization"_minimize.html.

[Restrictions:]

This fix requires that atoms store torque and angular velocity (omega)
and a radius as defined by the "atom_style sphere"_atom_style.html
command.

All particles in the group must be finite-size spheres.  They cannot
be point particles.

[Related commands:]

"fix npt"_fix_nh.html, "fix nve_sphere"_fix_nve_sphere.html, "fix
nvt_sphere"_fix_nvt_sphere.html, "fix
npt_asphere"_fix_npt_asphere.html, "fix_modify"_fix_modify.html

[Default:] none