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I am reading a paper, and I do not understand why the author said the following term when integrated twice will become,

$\int\limits_\Omega {{\rm{d}}\Omega {{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}\cdot\nabla \cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{\bf{u}}} \right)} \right)} = - \int\limits_\Gamma {{\rm{d}}\Gamma {{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}\cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( { {\bf{u}}} \right)} \right)\cdot{\bf{n}}} + \int\limits_\Gamma {{\rm{d}}\Gamma {\bf{n}}\cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}} \right)} \right)\cdot {\bf{u}}} - \int\limits_\Omega {{\rm{d}}\Omega {\bf{u}}\cdot\nabla \cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{{\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}}} \right)} \right)}$

Where both $\bf{u}$ and ${\bf{\psi }}^{\bf{u}}$ are vector field (velocity and adjoint velocity), and the strain rate $D\left( {{\bf{u}}}\right)=\frac{1}{2}\left( {\nabla {\bf{v}} + {\bf{v}}\nabla } \right)$.

Could anyone help me, see if it is correct and how to integrate it?

Thanks a lot!


Here is the link of this paper,

http://web.cos.gmu.edu/~rlohner/pages/publications/papers/reno04adj.pdf

Please see How equation 12 is integrated into equation 13.

The term appears in deriving adjoint equation that is very similar to the primal navier stokes equation during shape optimization.

And frozen turbulence assumption is used.

$\nabla \cdot\left( {2\nu D\left( {{\bf{u}}} \right)} \right)$ is what is called the diffusion term (for incompressible flow).

Thanks :)

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    There are a lot of symbols and terms here without context. It would help if you added a link to the paper you found this equation in, which may have other assumptions and conditions that you did not think to include.2012-05-27
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    I have just added more details to the question. :)2012-05-27

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