fix nve/line command

Syntax

fix ID group-ID nve/line
  • ID, group-ID are documented in fix command

  • nve/line = style name of this fix command

Examples

fix 1 all nve/line

Description

Perform constant NVE integration to update position, velocity, orientation, and angular velocity for line segment particles in the group each timestep. V is volume; E is energy.

This fix differs from the fix nve command, which assumes point particles and only updates their position and velocity.

Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop

No information about this fix is written to binary restart files. None of the fix_modify options are relevant to this fix. No global or per-atom quantities are stored by this fix for access by various output commands. No parameter of this fix can be used with the start/stop keywords of the run command.

Restrictions

This fix requires that particles be line segments as defined by the atom_style line command.