Wrong temperature behaviour with pair_style dpd

Hello,

I am trying to run a DPD simulation of a box with 3000 beads at 300 K.
The temperature (being set at the beginning) goes immediately to wrong values, .i.e. it either drops to 100-200 K or rises sharply to multiples (unless I carefully set the initial parameters).
Despite several days spent on reading manuals and tweaking parameters, I still do not understand what exactly is happening. I send the input and data files attached.

nafion.data (183 KB)

nafion.in (1.04 KB)

Hello,

I am trying to run a DPD simulation of a box with 3000 beads at 300 K.
The temperature (being set at the beginning) goes immediately to wrong
values, .i.e. it either drops to 100-200 K or rises sharply to multiples
(unless I carefully set the initial parameters).
Despite several days spent on reading manuals and tweaking parameters, I
still do not understand what exactly is happening. I send the input and
data files attached.

​you are using two competing thermostats on your system. pair style dpd
includes its own thermostat, yet you are using fix nvt in addition. this
will create chaos.
axel.​