[Wien] Regarding WIEN2K

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Apr 15 14:50:06 CEST 2016


There are MANY very good codes out on the market, both with 
pseudopotentials and all-electrons.

All codes have there advantages AND disadvantages and therefore it is 
good if one (usually the supervisor) knows the merrits of the different 
methods/codes.

In any case, I always say: the best code is the code, which you can 
master, because in 99% of the cases a code could do the job, but you do 
not know how to do it with this particular code.

WIEN2k is generally believed to be a fairly user-friendly code and has 
reasonable default input settings. In addition it has a mailing list 
where one can ask questions like this.


On 04/14/2016 06:31 PM, sikander Azam wrote:
> Dear sir Petr Blaha and others
> Why FOR FPLAPW method WIEN2K code is preferred than other FP codes like
> fleur code and others.
> Regards
> Sikander
>
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