calculation of shear stress

alimea · June 10, 2018, 04:27

Hi

I want to use shear stress tensor at the middle of a code.
Which one is correct and why?

Code:

tau = mu * dev(twoSymm(fvc::grad(U)));

Or

Code:

tau = mu * twoSymm(fvc::grad(U));

I saw in forces.C code that deviatoric component of stress tensor (dev(...)) is used, do you know why?

Regards

Santiago · June 11, 2018, 02:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by alimea

Hi

I want to use shear stress tensor at the middle of a code.
Which one is correct and why?

Code:

tau = mu * dev(twoSymm(fvc::grad(U)));

Or

Code:

tau = mu * twoSymm(fvc::grad(U));

I saw in forces.C code that deviatoric component of stress tensor (dev(...)) is used, do you know why?

Regards

Is your flow compressible? One is a generalization!

alimea · June 11, 2018, 02:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Santiago

Is your flow compressible? One is a generalization!

No, that is incompresible

Santiago · June 11, 2018, 03:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by alimea

No, that is incompresible

Again, mathematically, the two eqns are equivalent. Numerically, they're not, and are higly dependent on the Pressure Poisson residuals.

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alimea Senior Member A. Min Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 305 Rep Power: 12	Hi I want to use shear stress tensor at the middle of a code. Which one is correct and why? Code: tau = mu * dev(twoSymm(fvc::grad(U))); Or Code: tau = mu * twoSymm(fvc::grad(U)); I saw in forces.C code that deviatoric component of stress tensor (dev(...)) is used, do you know why? Regards

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