[srinath]

Hello

The stress tensor in centralFoam, seems to be constructed rather mysteriously with the command

volTensorField tauMC("tauMC",mu*dev2(fvc::grad(U)().T()))


What does fvc::grad(U)().T()) do?
What does dev2 do?

Thanks
Srinath

[grtabor]

fvc:: -- finite volume calculus - explicit evaluation of a derivative

grad() -- gradient operator. Operating on U gives a 2nd rank tensor, so .T() will take the transpose of this.

The extra brackets after grad(U) are slightly complicated; operations in OpenFOAM often return `tmp' objects which have to be converted to ordinary objects before you can proceed.

dev2 -- works out the deviatoric part of the tensor.

Gavin