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Old   July 12, 2016, 09:39
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Dear all,

at the moment I am focusing at the stress equation of the solidDisplacementFoam (again) but now I want to write the equations down for future. There are some question marks that came up, if we calculate the stress equation. Starting with the general stuff:

\frac{\partial^2 \textbf{D}}{\partial t^2} = \nabla \bullet \boldsymbol{\sigma}

Where D is the displacement vector and sigma the Cauchy stress tensor defined as:

\boldsymbol{\sigma} = 2\mu \boldsymbol \epsilon + \lambda \mathrm{tr} (\boldsymbol\epsilon) \textbf{I}

And epsilon is the strain tensor defined as:

\boldsymbol \epsilon = \frac{1}{2}(\nabla \otimes \textbf{D} + (\nabla \otimes \textbf{D})^T)

It is clear that we have to solve that equation:

\frac{\partial^2 \textbf{D}}{\partial t^2} = \nabla \bullet [ 2 \mu (\frac{1}{2} (\nabla  \otimes \textbf{D}) + (\nabla \otimes \textbf{D})^T)  + \lambda \mathrm{tr}(\nabla \otimes \textbf{D}) \textbf{I}]

The rhs is given by divSigmaExp in the code. After we have the field divSigmaExp, we subtract a part (I think for numerical stabilisation, thanks to Alex):

\nabla \bullet [(2 \mu + \lambda ) \nabla \otimes \textbf{D}]

And here is the problem. Till now I do not get the point why we subtract this kind of term. Even this term is treated different in the numerical point of view (compact stress switch???). I can not figure out why it is (2mu + lambda) grad (D). As far as I derived it, we should end up with mu only:

\nabla \bullet \boldsymbol \sigma = \nabla \bullet (\mu \nabla \otimes \textbf{D}) + \nabla \bullet (\mu (\nabla \otimes \textbf{D})^T) + \lambda \mathrm{tr}(\nabla \otimes \textbf{D}) \textbf{I}

As we can see, the first part is implicit that can be removed from the explicit part but it would be:

\nabla \bullet (\mu \nabla \otimes \textbf{D})

and not

\nabla \bullet ([2\mu + \lambda]\nabla \otimes \textbf{D})


The only way that I found is that we add and subtract the term

\nabla \bullet ([\mu + \lambda] \nabla \otimes \textbf{D}) - \nabla \bullet ([\mu + \lambda] \nabla \otimes \textbf{D})

Then I would get the term that I can not derive till now but then the negative term is missing in my equations somehow.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

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Hi all,

my last assumption was correct. The resource is here: https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ear_Elasticity
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