Solving Tensor Equations

[John Burleson]

Greetings,

I was wondering, does deal.ii has support for solving tensor equations directly? For instance, I am interested in using DG to solve for the stress tensor in the Oldroyd-B model, and I was wondering if I need to write the code to solve for the components of the stress tensor, or if deal.ii could handle doing it all at once. 

Thanks

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

It can. It does that in essentially the same way as we do for
vector-valued problems (see step-20, step-22, ...). There are
corresponding extractors for symmetric and non-symmetric tensors, and
you can also output tensor-valued quantities for visualization.

Best
W.

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