I’m trying to simulate a 9000 atoms system (of polypropylene) using npt dynamics. I’ve searched messages that have been posted on this forum before about the pressure fluctuations in the Lammps-NPT algorithm, however I get around 1000 atm (I’m using real units) of fluctuation and it makes no sense to me. This is the part of the input file to lammps with the npt fix (I’m using a higher temperature for equilibration, I later reduce the temperature using alternate steps of unfix-fix commands).
Is there a “numerical-stability” related issue involved?
I would appreciate any pointers you have for me.
abilash.
initial velocities
velocity all create 1000.0 4928459 mom yes dist gaussian
fixes
fix 1 all npt 1000.0 1000.0 100 xyz 1.0 1.0 500 drag 2.0
fix 2 all rdf 1000 rdf.dat 100 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2
run
timestep 1.0
thermo 100
thermo_style custom step pe etotal press vol temp