Overview
This section covers the TIP3P force field for water as it is implemented into the towhee_ff_TIP3P file in the ForceFields directory.
All of the Towhee atom types for this force field are listed, along with a short description of their meanings.
This is among the most popular water potentials of all time and several other force fields use similar parameterizations.
TIP3P is a rigid water model that has a Lennard-Jones site on the Oxygen and bare charge sites on the Hydrogens.
The Jorgensen group has also parameterized two other water models that utilize additional interaction sites.
Please see the TIP4Pand TIP5P web pages for more information
about those water models.
This water model is suitable for use with any Lennard-Jones forcefield, but is especially well suited for the OPLS family of potentials.
Please see the OPLS-ua, OPLS-aa, and OPLS-2001 web pages for more information.
Any discrepencies (especially typos) from the published force field values are the sole responsibility of Marcus Martin,
and I welcome feedback on how this implementation compares with other programs.
References for TIP3P
TIP3P was originally published in the following paper
TIP3P in Towhee
The official force field name for TIP3P in Towhee is 'TIP3P'.
This list contains the atom names for use in the towhee_input file, along with a brief description taken from the literature.
Please note that the capitalization and spacing pattern is important and must be followed exactly as listed here.
- 'H' : hydrogen in water
- 'O' : oxygen in water
Coulombic interactions
TIP3P uses atom-centered point charges to represent the electrostatic interactions.
The 'bond increment' method for assigning charges is implemented for this force field.
Here I list the bond increments for the atom names listed above. The value of the bond increment is added
to the first atom listed and subtracted from the second atom listed.
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