@@ -328,12 +328,12 @@ \subsection{Software/system requirements}
328328and 11) you can download a pre-compiled LAMMPS package from the LAMMPS
329329release page on GitHub
330330(\href {https://github.com/lammps/lammps/releases}{github.com/lammps/lammps/releases}).
331- Choose a package that has GUI in the file name (it will contain
331+ Choose a package with ` GUI' in the file name (it will contain
332332LAMMPS--GUI and a LAMMPS executable for the console). These
333333pre--compiled packages aim to be portable and therefore omit support for
334334running in parallel with MPI. \hyperref [using-lammps-gui]{Appendix
335335 \ref {using-lammps-gui-label }} has instructions for installing
336- LAMMPS--GUI and using its features that are most relevant to the
336+ LAMMPS--GUI and using its most relevant features for the
337337tutorials.
338338
339339LAMMPS versions have good backward compatibility (that is, old inputs
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ \subsubsection{My first input}
465465cause an error if entered later. Similarly, many LAMMPS commands may
466466only be entered \emph {after } the simulation box is defined. Only a very
467467small number of commands may be used in both cases. Edit
468- \textit {initial.lmp } so that section looks like this:
468+ \textit {initial.lmp } so that the \textit { Initialization } section looks like this:
469469{\normalsize
470470\begin {verbatim }
471471# 1) Initialization
@@ -647,19 +647,19 @@ \subsubsection{My first input}
647647\end {verbatim }
648648}
649649The \textit {thermo } command asks LAMMPS to print thermodynamic
650- information to the console every given number of steps, in this input
651- every 10 simulation steps. The \textit {thermo\_ style custom } determines
650+ information to the console every given number of steps, in this case,
651+ every 10 simulation steps. The \textit {thermo\_ style custom } command specifies
652652\emph {which } output LAMMPS should print. This selection prints the
653653step number (\textit {step }), the total energy (\textit {etotal }), and the
654- pressure (\textit {press }). The \textit {run 0 } command will tell LAMMPS
655- just to a force and energy initialization.
654+ pressure (\textit {press }). The \textit {run 0 } command instructs LAMMPS
655+ to perform only force and energy initialization.
656656
657657You can now run LAMMPS. It should finish quickly and with the default
658658settings, LAMMPS--GUI will open two new windows, one with the console
659659output and one with a chart. The output window will show some info
660660printed by the various commands in the input as they are executed and
661- the total energy and pressure at step 0, the requested thermodynamic
662- data. Since we have not done any real simulation steps, the charts
661+ the total energy and pressure at step 0, i.e. the requested thermodynamic
662+ data. Since no real simulation steps have been performed , the charts
663663are empty.
664664
665665\begin {figure }
@@ -709,16 +709,16 @@ \subsubsection{My first input}
709709algorithm \cite {hestenes1952methods }. The simulation will stop as soon
710710as the minimizer algorithm cannot find a way to lower the potential
711711energy. Except for trivial systems, minimization algorithms will find
712- the `` next '' minimum, which may not be the global minimum.
712+ a local minimum rather than the global minimum.
713713
714714Run the minimization and observe that LAMMPS-GUI will capture the output
715715and update the chart in real-time. This run executes quickly (depending on
716716your computer's capability) and may fail to
717717capture some of the thermodynamic data (see figure \ref {fig:chart-log }).
718718In that case, use the \textit {Preferences } dialog to reduce the
719719GUI update interval and switch to single threaded, unaccelerated
720- execution in the Accelerators tab. You can repeat the run. A new run
721- will always `` forget '' the current system and start over from the top.
720+ execution in the Accelerators tab. You can repeat the run. Each new run
721+ will start fresh, forgetting the current system and starting over from the top.
722722
723723The potential energy can be seen to decrease from a positive value to a
724724negative value. The initially positive value of the potential energy is
@@ -935,10 +935,10 @@ \subsubsection{Improving the script}
935935\end {verbatim }
936936}
937937
938- The significant improvement input is the addition of the
938+ A significant improvement to the input is the addition of the
939939\textit {write\_ data } command. This command is used to write the state
940940of the system to a text format file called \textit {improved.min.data }.
941- Note that the \textit {write\_ data } command is placed \emph {after } the
941+ Make sure the \textit {write\_ data } command is placed \emph {after } the
942942\textit {minimize } command. This \textit {.data } file will be used later
943943to restart the simulation from the final state of the energy
944944minimization step without having to repeat the system creation and
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