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<H3>fix wall/lj126 command
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<P><B>Syntax:</B>
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<PRE>fix ID group-ID wall/lj126 style coord epsilon sigma cutoff keyword values ...
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<UL><LI>ID, group-ID are documented in <A HREF = "fix.html">fix</A> command
<LI>wall/lj126 = style name of this fix command
<LI>style = <I>xlo</I> or <I>xhi</I> or <I>ylo</I> or <I>yhi</I> or <I>zlo</I> or <I>zhi</I>
<LI>coord = position of wall
<LI>epsilon = Lennard-Jones epsilon for wall-particle interaction
<LI>sigma = Lennard-Jones sigma for wall-particle interaction
<LI>cutoff = distance from wall at which wall-particle interaction is cut off (distance units)
<LI>one or more keyword/value pairs may be appended
<LI>keyword = <I>vel</I>
<PRE> <I>vel</I> args = v
v = velocity of wall in perpendicular direction (velocity units)
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<P><B>Examples:</B>
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<PRE>fix wallhi all wall/lj126 xhi 10.0 1.0 1.0 1.12
fix leftwall all wall/lj126 zlo 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.858 vel 1.0
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<P><B>Description:</B>
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<P>Bound the simulation domain on one of its faces with a Lennard-Jones
wall that interacts with the atoms in the group. The energy E of
wall-particle interactions is given by the 12-6 potential
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<P>where <I>r</I> is the distance from the particle to the wall <I>coord</I>, and
epsilon and sigma are the usual LJ parameters. Rc is the cutoff value
specified in the command. This interaction provides a harder, more
repulsive interaction with the wall than the softer 9-3 potential
provided by the <A HREF = "fix_wall_lj93.html">fix wall/lj93</A> command.
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<P>The wall potential is shifted so that the energy of a wall-particle
interaction is 0.0 at the cutoff distance.
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<P>If the <I>vel</I> keyword is specified, the position of wall will move
during the simulation, based on its initial position (coord), the
specified velocity (vel), and the time elapsed since the beginning of
the simulation. <I>Xlo</I> or <I>xhi</I> walls move in the x direction with
whatever sign you give the <I>v</I> argument. Ditto for <I>y</I> and <I>z</I> walls.
See the note below about making the wall move continuously across
multiple runs.
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<P><B>Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info:</B>
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<P>No information about this fix is written to <A HREF = "restart.html">binary restart
files</A>.
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<P>The <A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A> <I>energy</I> option is supported by this
fix to add the energy of interaction between atoms and the wall to the
system's potential energy as part of <A HREF = "thermo_style.html">thermodynamic
output</A>.
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<P>This fix computes a scalar energy and a 3-vector of forces (on the
wall), which can be accessed by various <A HREF = "Section_howto.html#4_15">output
commands</A>. The scalar and vector values
calculated by this fix are "extensive", meaning they scale with the
number of atoms in the simulation.
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<P>This fix can change the position of the wall, due to the <I>vel</I>
keyword, continuously over multiple runs, using the <I>start</I> and <I>stop</I>
keywords of the <A HREF = "run.html">run</A> command. If you do not do this, the
wall position will be reset to <I>coord</I> at the beginning of each run.
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<P>The forces due to this fix are imposed during an energy minimization,
invoked by the <A HREF = "minimize.html">minimize</A> command.
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<P>IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want the atom/wall interaction energy to be
included in the total potential energy of the system (the quantity
being minimized), you MUST enable the <A HREF = "fix_modify.html">fix_modify</A>
<I>energy</I> option for this fix.
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<P><B>Restrictions:</B>
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<P>Any dimension (xyz) that has a LJ 12/6 wall must be non-periodic.
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<P><B>Related commands:</B>
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<P><A HREF = "fix_wall_reflect.html">fix wall/reflect</A>, <A HREF = "fix_wall_lj93.html">fix
wall/lj93</A>
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<P><B>Default:</B>
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<P>The option defaults are vel = 0.
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