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Viscosity

The viscous contribution to the total stress is


\begin{displaymath}
\nu ( \frac{\partial v_i}{\partial x_j} +
\frac{\partial v_j}{\partial x_i} )
\end{displaymath}

where divergence is neglected since we only model slightly compressible flows.



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1999-04-23