[CIG-LONG] Gale stress tensor verse pressure output in .dat and vtk files

Walter Landry walter at geodynamics.org
Tue Aug 3 17:40:15 PDT 2010


Louis Moresi <louis.moresi at monash.edu> wrote:
> I think that it would be better if Gale and Underworld internally dealt with
> the total stress or deviatoric stress plus pressure and not the slightly odd
> mixture of the two which is something we compute for numerical convenience. I
> made this point to the developers and I hope that will filter through.

For truly compressible problems, I agree.  For incompressible
problems, it is useful to know how incompressible the solution really
is.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org


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