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<div class="section" id="fix-wall-reflect-command">
<span id="index-0"></span><h1>fix wall/reflect command<a class="headerlink" href="#fix-wall-reflect-command" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
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<div class="section" id="fix-wall-reflect-kk-command">
<h1>fix wall/reflect/kk command<a class="headerlink" href="#fix-wall-reflect-kk-command" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="syntax">
<h2>Syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#syntax" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>fix ID group-ID wall/reflect face arg ... keyword value ...
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<li>ID, group-ID are documented in <a class="reference internal" href="fix.html"><em>fix</em></a> command</li>
<li>wall/reflect = style name of this fix command</li>
<li>one or more face/arg pairs may be appended</li>
<li>face = <em>xlo</em> or <em>xhi</em> or <em>ylo</em> or <em>yhi</em> or <em>zlo</em> or <em>zhi</em></li>
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<em>xlo</em>,*ylo*,*zlo* arg = EDGE or constant or variable
EDGE = current lo edge of simulation box
constant = number like 0.0 or -30.0 (distance units)
variable = <a class="reference internal" href="variable.html"><em>equal-style variable</em></a> like v_x or v_wiggle
<em>xhi</em>,*yhi*,*zhi* arg = EDGE or constant or variable
EDGE = current hi edge of simulation box
constant = number like 50.0 or 100.3 (distance units)
variable = <a class="reference internal" href="variable.html"><em>equal-style variable</em></a> like v_x or v_wiggle
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<li>zero or more keyword/value pairs may be appended</li>
<li>keyword = <em>units</em></li>
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<em>units</em> value = <em>lattice</em> or <em>box</em>
<em>lattice</em> = the wall position is defined in lattice units
<em>box</em> = the wall position is defined in simulation box units
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<div class="section" id="examples">
<h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>fix xwalls all wall/reflect xlo EDGE xhi EDGE
fix walls all wall/reflect xlo 0.0 ylo 10.0 units box
fix top all wall/reflect zhi v_pressdown
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<div class="section" id="description">
<h2>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Bound the simulation with one or more walls which reflect particles
in the specified group when they attempt to move thru them.</p>
<p>Reflection means that if an atom moves outside the wall on a timestep
by a distance delta (e.g. due to <a class="reference internal" href="fix_nve.html"><em>fix nve</em></a>), then it is
put back inside the face by the same delta, and the sign of the
corresponding component of its velocity is flipped.</p>
<p>When used in conjunction with <a class="reference internal" href="fix_nve.html"><em>fix nve</em></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="run_style.html"><em>run_style verlet</em></a>, the resultant time-integration algorithm is
equivalent to the primitive splitting algorithm (PSA) described by
<a class="reference internal" href="#bond"><span>Bond</span></a>. Because each reflection event divides
the corresponding timestep asymmetrically, energy conservation is only
satisfied to O(dt), rather than to O(dt^2) as it would be for
velocity-Verlet integration without reflective walls.</p>
<p>Up to 6 walls or faces can be specified in a single command: <em>xlo</em>,
<em>xhi</em>, <em>ylo</em>, <em>yhi</em>, <em>zlo</em>, <em>zhi</em>. A <em>lo</em> face reflects particles
that move to a coordinate less than the wall position, back in the
<em>hi</em> direction. A <em>hi</em> face reflects particles that move to a
coordinate higher than the wall position, back in the <em>lo</em> direction.</p>
<p>The position of each wall can be specified in one of 3 ways: as the
EDGE of the simulation box, as a constant value, or as a variable. If
EDGE is used, then the corresponding boundary of the current
simulation box is used. If a numeric constant is specified then the
wall is placed at that position in the appropriate dimension (x, y, or
z). In both the EDGE and constant cases, the wall will never move.
If the wall position is a variable, it should be specified as v_name,
where name is an <a class="reference internal" href="variable.html"><em>equal-style variable</em></a> name. In this
case the variable is evaluated each timestep and the result becomes
the current position of the reflecting wall. Equal-style variables
can specify formulas with various mathematical functions, and include
<a class="reference internal" href="thermo_style.html"><em>thermo_style</em></a> command keywords for the simulation
box parameters and timestep and elapsed time. Thus it is easy to
specify a time-dependent wall position.</p>
<p>The <em>units</em> keyword determines the meaning of the distance units used
to define a wall position, but only when a numeric constant or
variable is used. It is not relevant when EDGE is used to specify a
face position. In the variable case, the variable is assumed to
produce a value compatible with the <em>units</em> setting you specify.</p>
<p>A <em>box</em> value selects standard distance units as defined by the
<a class="reference internal" href="units.html"><em>units</em></a> command, e.g. Angstroms for units = real or metal.
A <em>lattice</em> value means the distance units are in lattice spacings.
The <a class="reference internal" href="lattice.html"><em>lattice</em></a> command must have been previously used to
define the lattice spacings.</p>
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<p>Here are examples of variable definitions that move the wall position
in a time-dependent fashion using equal-style
<a class="reference internal" href="variable.html"><em>variables</em></a>.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>variable ramp equal ramp(0,10)
fix 1 all wall/reflect xlo v_ramp
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>variable linear equal vdisplace(0,20)
fix 1 all wall/reflect xlo v_linear
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>variable wiggle equal swiggle(0.0,5.0,3.0)
fix 1 all wall/reflect xlo v_wiggle
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<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>variable wiggle equal cwiggle(0.0,5.0,3.0)
fix 1 all wall/reflect xlo v_wiggle
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<p>The ramp(lo,hi) function adjusts the wall position linearly from lo to
hi over the course of a run. The vdisplace(c0,velocity) function does
something similar using the equation position = c0 + velocity*delta,
where delta is the elapsed time.</p>
<p>The swiggle(c0,A,period) function causes the wall position to
oscillate sinusoidally according to this equation, where omega = 2 PI
/ period:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>position = c0 + A sin(omega*delta)
</pre></div>
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<p>The cwiggle(c0,A,period) function causes the wall position to
oscillate sinusoidally according to this equation, which will have an
initial wall velocity of 0.0, and thus may impose a gentler
perturbation on the particles:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">position</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">c0</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">A</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">cos</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">omega</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">delta</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
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They have been optimized to run faster, depending on your available
hardware, as discussed in <a class="reference internal" href="Section_accelerate.html"><em>Section_accelerate</em></a>
of the manual. The accelerated styles take the same arguments and
should produce the same results, except for round-off and precision
issues.</p>
<p>These accelerated styles are part of the USER-CUDA, GPU, USER-INTEL,
KOKKOS, USER-OMP and OPT packages, respectively. They are only
enabled if LAMMPS was built with those packages. See the <a class="reference internal" href="Section_start.html#start-3"><span>Making LAMMPS</span></a> section for more info.</p>
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<div class="section" id="restart-fix-modify-output-run-start-stop-minimize-info">
<h2>Restart, fix_modify, output, run start/stop, minimize info<a class="headerlink" href="#restart-fix-modify-output-run-start-stop-minimize-info" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>No information about this fix is written to <a class="reference internal" href="restart.html"><em>binary restart files</em></a>. None of the <a class="reference internal" href="fix_modify.html"><em>fix_modify</em></a> options
are relevant to this fix. No global or per-atom quantities are stored
by this fix for access by various <a class="reference internal" href="Section_howto.html#howto-15"><span>output commands</span></a>. No parameter of this fix can
be used with the <em>start/stop</em> keywords of the <a class="reference internal" href="run.html"><em>run</em></a> command.
This fix is not invoked during <a class="reference internal" href="minimize.html"><em>energy minimization</em></a>.</p>
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<h2>Restrictions<a class="headerlink" href="#restrictions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Any dimension (xyz) that has a reflecting wall must be non-periodic.</p>
<p>A reflecting wall should not be used with rigid bodies such as those
defined by a &#8220;fix rigid&#8221; command. This is because the wall/reflect
displaces atoms directly rather than exerts a force on them. For
rigid bodies, use a soft wall instead, such as <a class="reference internal" href="fix_wall.html"><em>fix wall/lj93</em></a>. LAMMPS will flag the use of a rigid
fix with fix wall/reflect with a warning, but will not generate an
error.</p>
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<div class="section" id="related-commands">
<h2>Related commands<a class="headerlink" href="#related-commands" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="fix_wall.html"><em>fix wall/lj93</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="fix_oneway.html"><em>fix oneway</em></a></p>
<p><strong>Default:</strong> none</p>
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<p id="bond"><strong>(Bond)</strong> Bond and Leimkuhler, SIAM J Sci Comput, 30, p 134 (2007).</p>
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