From 1a3ac720dfefcdd3feefc5c4b234e8caf766be4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sjplimp
You should not swap velocities of atoms that are in constrained -molecules, e.g. via fix shake or fix -rigid, since application of the constraints will alter -the amount of transferred momentum. You should, however, be able to -use flexible molecules with this approach. LAMMPS does not check that -this advice is followed. +
LAMMPS does not check, but you should not use this fix to swap +velocities of atoms that are in constrained molecules, e.g. via fix +shake or fix rigid. This is because +application of the constraints will alter the amount of transferred +momentum. You should, however, be able to use flexible molecules. +See the Maginn paper for an example of using this algorithm +in a computation of alcohol molecule properties.
When running a simulation with large, massive particles or molecules in a background solvent, you may want to only exchange momenta bewteen @@ -122,4 +123,9 @@ nvt/sllod
(Muller-Plathe) Muller-Plathe, Phys Rev E, 59, 4894-4898 (1999).
+ + +(Maginn) Kelkar, Rafferty, Maginn, Siepmann, Fluid Phase Equilibria, +260, 218-231 (2007). +