LAMMPS results analysis

Dear lammps users,

Sorry for the basic question, I am trying to analyze the results of Hydrocarbon MD simulation. As a simple tutorial, I am running ‘CH4 + OH’ simulation with these command lines

‘fix 4 all reax/c/bonds 10 bonds.tatb’

‘fix 5 all reax/c/species 1 10 10 reax_species.out element C H O cutoff 1 1 0.5 cutoff 1 2 0.5 cutoff 1 3 0.5 cutoff 2 2 0.5 cutoff 2 3 0.5 cutoff 3 3 0.5’

When I analyze the results ‘reax_species.out’ file, I find strange species ‘CH2’&’H’ at Timestep 450. How does the command(reax/c/species) classify the molecule(species)? Isn’t this command classifying species using bond-order cutoff value? When I check the bond-order at Timestep 450 through the ‘bonds.tatb’ file, I can’t find the reason why the species of ‘CH2’ and ‘H’ were generated.

The output file (reax_species.out and bonds.tatb)are attached. Any advice is very much appreciated.

Best regards,
jongwun

reax_species.out

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

400 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

410 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

420 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

430 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

440 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH2 H2O H

450 3 3 1 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

460 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

470 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

480 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

490 2 2 1 1

Timestep No_Moles No_Specs CH3 H2O

500 2 2 1 1

bonds.tatb

Timestep 400

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.966 0.962 0.903 2.922 0.006 -0.285
2 2 1 6 0 0.962 1.045 0.000 0.456
3 2 1 1 0 0.966 0.976 0.000 0.041
4 2 1 1 0 0.962 0.970 0.000 0.085
5 2 1 1 0 0.903 0.907 0.000 0.078
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.962 0.920 1.898 2.000 -0.648
7 2 1 6 0 0.920 0.927 0.000 0.273

Timestep 410

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.962 0.969 0.944 2.896 0.008 -0.289
2 2 1 6 0 0.964 0.982 0.000 0.438
3 2 1 1 0 0.962 0.974 0.000 0.038
4 2 1 1 0 0.969 0.977 0.000 0.092
5 2 1 1 0 0.944 0.951 0.000 0.098
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.964 0.876 1.855 2.000 -0.586
7 2 1 6 0 0.876 0.887 0.000 0.209

Timestep 420

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.958 0.972 0.974 2.925 0.005 -0.300
2 2 1 6 0 0.946 0.967 0.000 0.376
3 2 1 1 0 0.958 0.969 0.000 0.036
4 2 1 1 0 0.972 0.980 0.000 0.099
5 2 1 1 0 0.974 0.984 0.000 0.124
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.946 0.823 1.782 2.000 -0.504
7 2 1 6 0 0.823 0.836 0.000 0.169

Timestep 430

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.953 0.971 0.987 2.979 0.003 -0.311
2 2 1 6 0 0.901 0.969 0.000 0.302
3 2 1 1 0 0.953 0.963 0.000 0.035
4 2 1 1 0 0.971 0.979 0.000 0.102
5 2 1 1 0 0.987 0.998 0.000 0.149
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.901 0.789 1.700 2.000 -0.433
7 2 1 6 0 0.789 0.800 0.000 0.156

Timestep 440

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.951 0.966 0.989 3.213 0.000 -0.303
2 2 1 6 0 0.828 1.135 0.000 0.241
3 2 1 1 0 0.951 0.959 0.000 0.035
4 2 1 1 0 0.966 0.974 0.000 0.098
5 2 1 1 0 0.989 1.001 0.000 0.156
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.828 0.793 1.629 2.000 -0.391
7 2 1 6 0 0.793 0.802 0.000 0.163

Timestep 450

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.951 0.959 0.985 3.008 0.002 -0.264
2 2 1 6 0 0.773 0.890 0.000 0.197
3 2 1 1 0 0.951 0.958 0.000 0.036
4 2 1 1 0 0.959 0.966 0.000 0.087
5 2 1 1 0 0.985 0.995 0.000 0.140
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.773 0.841 1.621 2.000 -0.383
7 2 1 6 0 0.841 0.853 0.000 0.187

Timestep 460

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 4 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 4 2 3 4 5 0 0.444 0.954 0.951 0.969 3.325 0.000 -0.226
2 2 2 1 6 0 0.444 0.703 1.156 0.000 0.168
3 2 1 1 0 0.954 0.959 0.000 0.034
4 2 1 1 0 0.951 0.955 0.000 0.076
5 2 1 1 0 0.969 0.974 0.000 0.115
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.703 0.895 1.605 2.000 -0.399
7 2 1 6 0 0.895 0.901 0.000 0.231

Timestep 470

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.959 0.947 0.935 3.045 0.001 -0.195
2 2 1 6 0 0.698 0.905 0.000 0.151
3 2 1 1 0 0.959 0.963 0.000 0.034
4 2 1 1 0 0.947 0.949 0.000 0.067
5 2 1 1 0 0.935 0.937 0.000 0.094
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.698 0.940 1.644 2.000 -0.441
7 2 1 6 0 0.940 0.946 0.000 0.290

Timestep 480

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 4 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 4 2 3 4 5 0 0.391 0.962 0.947 0.892 3.199 0.000 -0.188
2 2 2 1 6 0 0.391 0.703 1.101 0.000 0.160
3 2 1 1 0 0.962 0.967 0.000 0.030
4 2 1 1 0 0.947 0.949 0.000 0.063
5 2 1 1 0 0.892 0.893 0.000 0.083
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.703 0.960 1.669 2.000 -0.488
7 2 1 6 0 0.960 0.963 0.000 0.339

Timestep 490

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.964 0.954 0.873 2.970 0.003 -0.193
2 2 1 6 0 0.760 0.940 0.000 0.193
3 2 1 1 0 0.964 0.968 0.000 0.025
4 2 1 1 0 0.954 0.955 0.000 0.065
5 2 1 1 0 0.873 0.874 0.000 0.079
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.760 0.962 1.728 2.000 -0.517
7 2 1 6 0 0.962 0.965 0.000 0.348

Timestep 500

Number of particles 7

Max number of bonds per atom 3 with coarse bond order cutoff 0.300

Particle connection table and bond orders

id type nb id_1…id_nb mol bo_1…bo_nb abo nlp q

1 1 3 3 4 5 0 0.964 0.961 0.892 3.045 0.001 -0.216
2 2 1 6 0 0.818 1.046 0.000 0.246
3 2 1 1 0 0.964 0.968 0.000 0.023
4 2 1 1 0 0.961 0.963 0.000 0.073
5 2 1 1 0 0.892 0.893 0.000 0.080
6 3 2 2 7 0 0.818 0.944 1.767 2.000 -0.519
7 2 1 6 0 0.944 0.946 0.000 0.312

There is a significant difference between your two fix commands. The bond output is the instantaneous data output every 10 steps while the species data uses an average over the last 10 steps to compute its data. So to make those comparable, you would have to use 1 1 10 instead of 1 10 10.

Your answer helped me a lot! thanks :slight_smile: