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<CENTER><A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A> - <A HREF = "Manual.html">LAMMPS Documentation</A> - <A HREF = "Section_commands.html#comm">LAMMPS Commands</A>
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<H3>compute inertia/molecule command
</H3>
<P><B>Syntax:</B>
</P>
<PRE>compute ID group-ID inertia/molecule
</PRE>
<UL><LI>ID, group-ID are documented in <A HREF = "compute.html">compute</A> command
<LI>inertia/molecule = style name of this compute command
</UL>
<P><B>Examples:</B>
</P>
<PRE>compute 1 fluid inertia/molecule
</PRE>
<P><B>Description:</B>
</P>
<P>Define a computation that calculates the inertia tensor of individual
molecules. The calculation includes all effects due to atoms passing
thru periodic boundaries.
</P>
<P>The symmetric intertia tensor has 6 components, ordered
Ixx,Iyy,Izz,Ixy,Iyz,Ixz. The tensor for a particular molecule is only
computed if one or more of its atoms is in the specified group.
Normally all atoms in the molecule should be in the group, however
this is not required. LAMMPS will warn you if this is not the case.
Only atoms in the group contribute to the inertia tensor and
associated center-of-mass calculation for the molecule.
</P>
<P>The ordering of per-molecule quantities produced by this compute is
consistent with the ordering produced by other compute commands that
generate per-molecule datums. Conceptually, the molecule IDs will be
in ascending order for any molecule with one or more of its atoms in
the specified group.
</P>
<P>IMPORTANT NOTE: The coordinates of an atom contribute to the
molecule's inertia tensor in "unwrapped" form, by using the image
flags associated with each atom. See the <A HREF = "dump.html">dump custom</A>
command for a discussion of "unwrapped" coordinates. See the Atoms
section of the <A HREF = "read_data.html">read_data</A> command for a discussion of
image flags and how they are set for each atom. You can reset the
image flags (e.g. to 0) before invoking this compute by using the <A HREF = "set.html">set
image</A> command.
</P>
<P><B>Output info:</B>
</P>
<P>This compute calculates a global array where the number of rows =
Nmolecules and the number of columns = 6 for the 6 components of the
inertia tensor of each molecule, ordered as listed above. These
values can be accessed by any command that uses global array values
from a compute as input. See <A HREF = "Section_howto.html#howto_15">Section_howto
15</A> for an overview of LAMMPS output
options.
</P>
<P>The array values are "intensive". The array values will be in
distance <A HREF = "units.html">units</A>.
</P>
<P><B>Restrictions:</B> none
</P>
<P><B>Related commands:</B>
</P>
<P><A HREF = "variable.html">variable inertia() function</A>
</P>
<P><B>Default:</B> none
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