"Peter" <pls at worldaccess.nl> writes:
>> Hello,
>> When polar decomposition is applied to a deformation-gradient tensor ( F )
> it can be split into a right stretch tensor ( U ) and a rotation tensor
> ( R ).
...
>> PS I don't know wether this is the right newsgruop for this question. Are
> there more suitable groups ??
You have probably more luck in
sci.math and/or
sci.math.num-analysis
Philip
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