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Old   August 4, 2009, 12:30
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Kian Mehravaran
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Hello,

I was wondering what is the proper and elegant way to compute the second derivative of velocity (d^2 U_i/ dx_k^2), i,k=[1,2,3], a tensor?

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Old   August 6, 2009, 03:07
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Hi
Are you interested in laplacian terms...if yes check fvSchemes of any tutorial
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