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<H3>compute vcm/chunk command
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<PRE>compute ID group-ID vcm/chunk chunkID
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<UL><LI>ID, group-ID are documented in <A HREF = "compute.html">compute</A> command
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<LI>vcm/chunk = style name of this compute command
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<LI>chunkID = ID of <A HREF = "compute_chunk_atom.html">compute chunk/atom</A> command
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<PRE>compute 1 fluid vcm/chunk molchunk
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<P><B>Description:</B>
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<P>Define a computation that calculates the center-of-mass velocity for
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multiple chunks of atoms.
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<P>In LAMMPS, chunks are collections of atoms defined by a <A HREF = "compute_chunk_atom.html">compute
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chunk/atom</A> command, which assigns each atom
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to a single chunk (or no chunk). The ID for this command is specified
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as chunkID. For example, a single chunk could be the atoms in a
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molecule or atoms in a spatial bin. See the <A HREF = "compute_chunk_atom.html">compute
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chunk/atom</A> doc page and "<A HREF = "Section_howto.html#howto_23">Section_howto
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23</A> for details of how chunks can be
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defined and examples of how they can be used to measure properties of
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<P>This compute calculates the x,y,z components of the center-of-mass
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velocity for each chunk. This is done by summing mass*velocity for
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each atom in the chunk and dividing the sum by the total mass of the
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<P>Note that only atoms in the specified group contribute to the
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calculation. The <A HREF = "compute_chunk_atom.html">compute chunk/atom</A> command
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defines its own group; atoms will have a chunk ID = 0 if they are not
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in that group, signifying they are not assigned to a chunk, and will
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thus also not contribute to this calculation. You can specify the
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"all" group for this command if you simply want to include atoms with
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<P>The simplest way to output the results of the compute vcm/chunk
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calculation to a file is to use the <A HREF = "fix_ave_time.html">fix ave/time</A>
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<PRE>compute cc1 all chunk/atom molecule
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compute myChunk all vcm/chunk cc1
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fix 1 all ave/time 100 1 100 c_myChunk file tmp.out mode vector
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<P><B>Output info:</B>
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<P>This compute calculates a global array where the number of rows = the
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number of chunks <I>Nchunk</I> as calculated by the specified <A HREF = "compute_chunk_atom.html">compute
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chunk/atom</A> command. The number of columns =
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3 for the x,y,z center-of-mass velocity coordinates of each chunk.
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These values can be accessed by any command that uses global array
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values from a compute as input. See <A HREF = "Section_howto.html#howto_15">Section_howto
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15</A> for an overview of LAMMPS output
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<P>The array values are "intensive". The array values will be in
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velocity <A HREF = "units.html">units</A>.
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<P><B>Restrictions:</B> none
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<P><B>Related commands:</B> none
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<P><B>Default:</B> none