From: Jim Parker (jim.parker_at_prismsciences.com)
Date: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 07:10:12 CST
Bin,
Thanks! Worked as advertised.
Cheers,
--Jim
BIN ZHANG wrote:
> Hi, Jim:
>
> This expression is not recognized by Tcl:
>> set compF "$RFampl*sin(2*$PI*$RFfreq*$t/1000000*2)"
> you need to use :
> set compF [expr {$RFampl*sin(2*$PI*$RFfreq*$t/1000000*2)}]
> instead.
>
> Best,
> Bin
>
> On Dec 1, 2009, at 10:33 PM, Jim Parker wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to generate a time variable force (harmonic perturbation)
>> for use in NAMD. I thought a straight-forward approach would be to
>> compute the perturbation using the "getstep" function in Tcl. Then
>> addforce to an atom-id with size =Amplitude*sin(2*pi*freq*t), 0,0
>>
>> However, executing the code fails with FATAL ERROR: expected
>> floating-point number. (actual error below)
>>
>> The problem seems to be that the TCL interpreter is not substituting
>> a value for "getstep" into the argument for sin() and thus the
>> argument is not a floating-point number. Can anyone help point me in
>> the right direction?
>>
>> I did see that several people mentioned float-point errors in Tcl. I
>> think this a syntax error, but maybe related to that??
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --Jim Parker
>> UTSA Physics and Astronomy
>>
>> Error and code follows:
>> *****************************************
>> Reason: FATAL ERROR: expected floating-point number but got
>> "0.1*sin(2*3.1416*1000*getstep/1000000*2)"
>> while executing
>> "vecscale $xvec $compF"
>> (procedure "calcforces" line 10)
>> invoked from within
>> "calcforces"
>>
>> Charm++ fatal error:
>> FATAL ERROR: expected floating-point number but got
>> "0.1*sin(2*3.1416*1000*getstep/1000000*2)"
>> while executing
>> "vecscale $xvec $compF"
>> (procedure "calcforces" line 10)
>> invoked from within
>> "calcforces"
>>
>> Aborted
>> *****************************************
>> TCL snipet follows
>>
>> tclForcesScript {
>> # save timestep set t [getstep] ; #t is in 2fs steps
>> print "The current time is $t"
>> # The IDs of the atoms defining the oscillation
>> set aidleft 1
>> set aidright 2
>> addatom $aidleft
>> addatom $aidright
>> set PI 3.1416
>>
>> # real frequency = RFfreq * 10^9 Hz
>> set RFfreq 1000 ; #1 THz
>> # RFampl in angstroms
>> set RFampl 0.1 # print "Freq is $RFfreq and amplitude is
>> $RFampl"
>>
>> proc calcforces {} {
>> global aidleft aidright PI RFfreq RFampl t
>> loadcoords p
>> # Calculate the harmonic force component
>> # note time = t * time/step
>> set compF "$RFampl*sin(2*$PI*$RFfreq*$t/1000000*2)"
>> # The force to be applied on each atom along x-axis (basevector)
>> set basevec {1. 0. 0.}
>> addforce $aidleft [vecscale $basevec $compF]
>> addforce $aidright [vecscale $basevec -1.0*$compF]
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>
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