Dear all,
I have been looking at the thermal conductivity of a Lennard-Jones fluid calculated both via Green-Kubo equilibrium simulation and via NEMD approachs with a home made code.
As a benchmark test I performed some calculations with LAMMPS to confirm the validity of my results. Unfortunately however I get fairly different results with the LAMMPS simulations I have ran.
I have also however read various papers which report the same values that I get from my own code and therefore am presuming that my code is indeed correct and either:
(1) I am running the LAMMPS calculation incorrectly (99.9% likely)
or
(2) There is an intrinsic problem with how LAMMPS calculates the thermal conductivity.
I attach the input for my LAMMPS simulation in the hope that someone could help me with this issue.
For the record the value I am getting from my simulations and the literature is around k=6.41, whereas LAMMPS is producing a value of k=9.5. All units are that of LJ.
Many thanks in advance, Jeff
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