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"LAMMPS WWW Site"_lws - "LAMMPS Documentation"_ld - "LAMMPS Commands"_lc :c
:link(lws,http://lammps.sandia.gov)
:link(ld,Manual.html)
:link(lc,Section_commands.html#comm)
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compute stress/atom command :h3
[Syntax:]
compute ID group-ID stress/atom keyword ... :pre
ID, group-ID are documented in "compute"_compute.html command
stress/atom = style name of this compute command
zero or more keywords may be appended
keyword = {ke} or {pair} or {bond} or {angle} or {dihedral} or {improper} or {fix} or {virial} :ul
[Examples:]
compute 1 mobile stress/atom
compute 1 all stress/atom pair bond :pre
[Description:]
Define a computation that computes the symmetric per-atom stress
tensor for each atom in a group. The tensor for each atom has 6
components and is stored as a 6-element vector in the following order:
xx, yy, zz, xy, xz, yz. See the "compute
pressure"_compute_pressure.html command if you want the stress tensor
(pressure) of the entire system.
The stress tensor for atom {I} is given by the following formula,
where {a} and {b} take on values x,y,z to generate the 6 components of
the symmetric tensor:
:c,image(Eqs/stress_tensor.jpg)
The first term is a kinetic energy contribution for atom {I}. The
second term is a pairwise energy contribution where {n} loops over the
{Np} neighbors of atom {I}, {r1} and {r2} are the positions of the 2
atoms in the pairwise interaction, and {F1} and {F2} are the forces on
the 2 atoms resulting from the pairwise interaction. The third term
is a bond contribution of similar form for the {Nb} bonds which atom
{I} is part of. There are similar terms for the {Na} angle, {Nd}
dihedral, and {Ni} improper interactions atom {I} is part of.
Finally, there is a term for the {Nf} "fixes"_fix.html that apply
internal constraint forces to atom {I}. Currently, only the "fix
shake"_fix_shake.html and "fix rigid"_fix_rigid.html commands
contribute to this term.
As the coefficients in the formula imply, a virial contribution
produced by a small set of atoms (e.g. 4 atoms in a dihedral or 3
atoms in a Tersoff 3-body interaction) is assigned in equal portions
to each atom in the set. E.g. 1/4 of the dihedral virial to each of
the 4 atoms, or 1/3 of the fix virial due to SHAKE constraints applied
to atoms in a a water molecule via the "fix shake"_fix_shake.html
command.
If no extra keywords are listed, all of the terms in this formula are
included in the per-atom stress tensor. If any extra keywords are
listed, only those terms are summed to compute the tensor. The
{virial} keyword means include all terms except the kinetic energy
{ke}.
Note that the stress for each atom is due to its interaction with all
other atoms in the simulation, not just with other atoms in the group.
The "dihedral_style charmm"_dihedral_charmm.html style calculates
pairwise interactions between 1-4 atoms. The virial contribution of
these terms is included in the pair virial, not the dihedral virial.
Note that as defined in the formula, per-atom stress is the negative
of the per-atom pressure tensor. It is also really a stress*volume
formulation, meaning the computed quantity is in units of
pressure*volume. It would need to be divided by a per-atom volume to
have units of stress (pressure), but an individual atom's volume is
not well defined or easy to compute in a deformed solid or a liquid.
Thus, if the diagonal components of the per-atom stress tensor are
summed for all atoms in the system and the sum is divided by dV, where
d = dimension and V is the volume of the system, the result should be
-P, where P is the total pressure of the system.
These lines in an input script for a 3d system should yield that
result. I.e. the last 2 columns of thermo output will be the same:
compute peratom all stress/atom
compute p all reduce sum c_peratom\[1\] c_peratom\[2\] c_peratom\[3\]
variable press equal -(c_p\[1\]+c_p\[2\]+c_p\[3\])/(3*vol)
thermo_style custom step temp etotal press v_press :pre
IMPORTANT NOTE: The per-atom stress does NOT include contributions due
to long-range Coulombic interactions (via the
"kspace_style"_kspace_style.html command). It's not clear this
contribution can easily be computed.
[Output info:]
This compute calculates a per-atom array with 6 columns, which can be
accessed by indices 1-6 by any command that uses per-atom values from
a compute as input. See "this section"_Section_howto.html#howto_15
for an overview of LAMMPS output options.
The per-atom array values will be in pressure*volume
"units"_units.html as discussed above.
[Restrictions:] none
[Related commands:]
"compute pe"_compute_pe.html, "compute pressure"_compute_pressure.html
[Default:] none
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