Hi all,
I recently tried to use the fix ave/atom command in the 21 Apr 08 release (haven’t upgraded to the latest yet, but no bug fix is mentioned for this anyway). I came across an interesting ‘gotcha’ that as far as I can tell isn’t mentioned anywhere nor do the errors outputed by the code (Illegal fix ave/atom command) give any useful indication of what is wrong.
the docs say that the command is to be invoked as follows:
fix ID group-ID ave/atom Nevery Nrepeat Nfreq value1 value2 …
the command I invoked is as follows:
fix 4 all ave/atom 1 20 5 x y z
Which seems reasonable as the docs only say that Nfreq must be a multiple of Nevery and Nevery must be nonzero even in Nrepeat is 1. However, the examples shown show the case where Nfreq >= Nrepeat > Nevery . But this is the interesting part…
In the code in fix_ave_atom.cpp (FixAveAtom::FixAveAtom) around line 120 there is an error-checking if statement that is as follows:
if (peratom_freq < nevery || peratom_freq % nevery ||
(nrepeat-1)*nevery >= peratom_freq)
error->all(“Illegal fix ave/atom command”);
So, actually according to this, Nfreq must be less than (Nrepeat-1)*Nevery in order for the error code not to be evaluated, in addition to the requirements listed in the docs. This seems like a bug in the code, since if Nrepeat = 1, Nfreq would have to be less than zero for the code to continue. Anyone been able to use this fix successfully? I am missing something?
Dave
David E. Farrell
Graduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
email: d-farrell2@…435…