A Robust Water Potential Parameterisation
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Simulation
- Vol. 18 (3), 145-154
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08927029608024120
Abstract
We compare molecular dynamics simulation results for the properties of liquid water predicted by four novel water potential models. These models are designed as a combination of parameters taken from the dedicated but brittle TIP3P water potential, and the more flexible but less accurate parameterisations such as the Dreiding and Universal force fields. We find that a hybrid of Dreiding and TIP3P delivers the best results, yielding a density, diffusion coefficient and radial distribution function in good agreement with experiment, performing in some respects even better than the dedicated reference TIP3P model. Another Dreiding based force field predicts semi-quantitative results for the water structure and dynamics while the Universal force field based models are incapable of simulating a condensed phase of water at all, continuing to expand indefinitely. These observations are useful for selecting and designing robust water force field parameterisations that can be used for general simulation purposes.Keywords
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