As a beginner of LAMMPS. I have learnt that LAMMPS is a powerful software for MD. So I want to ask three questions:
First, whether LAMMPS can solve the growth process of aerosol which is Constituted by H2SO4-H2O and some other molecular(such as organic molecular or Ammonia). so far, I have seen some literatures used MD to resolve the nucleation issue in which the particle is constituted of Ar.
Second, I want to know whether LAMMPS can solve the growth process with chemistry reaction.
Third, because I know little about Linux and I want to operate LAMMPS on Windows, so I want to know whether LAMMPS for Windows is equal to LAMMPS for Linux on the operational efficiency and functionality.
1. You should look through the literature to find a suitable force
field or potential for your H_2SO_4-H_2O + organic molecules + Ammonia
system. If there is one, check the LAMMPS documentation to see if
LAMMPS has a such potential.
2. To do this you need a reactive potential. Same as bullet 1.
3. Same, but windows executable is compiled and updated less frequently.
1. You should look through the literature to find a suitable force
field or potential for your H_2SO_4-H_2O + organic molecules + Ammonia
system. If there is one, check the LAMMPS documentation to see if
LAMMPS has a such potential.
2. To do this you need a reactive potential. Same as bullet 1.
3. Same, but windows executable is compiled and updated less frequently.
While windows binaries have improved, there are some LAMMPS tools
(molecule-builders and postprocessing tools) which require bash and
python. (Disclaimer: I wrote one of these tools.) Bash and python
are included with a mac and linux. If you want to run LAMMPS in
windows, you may eventually need to install cygwin (or mingw, or
WUBI+ubuntu) if you decide you need to access these tools.
For many other reasons, getting familiar with linux is a good idea in
the long run.
