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Jalo
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Homework Statement
Given a square and the respective distension tensor, ε, find the position on his vortices after the transformation.
ε = 0.1...0.25
...0.25...0.1
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The Attempt at a Solution
I got kind of lost in this question. I started thinking that maybe a vortic at the coordinates (a,b) would later be at the position (a',b') given by:
(a',b') = (a,b)ε
This got me some weird results tho, which led me to believe it was wrong.
I later tried to solve it using each component of the tensor alone. I know that the components of the diagonal give me the elongation, therefore I used them to find the positions of the vortices after the elongation. The problem came when I had to deal with the distortion. How can I find the position of the vortices there? I managed to find the position of the vortices that were at either the x-axis or y axis, using trigonometry
sin(εxy)=b'/L , where L is the length of the square after the elongation.
My problem now rests with finding the position of the vortix at (L,L).
Using trigonometry I found that the size of the diagonal,D, after the distortion was:
D = Lcos(π/4-εxy)
Since the vortix will still have an y coordinate equal to the x coordinate after the distortion I can say that:
2A^2=D^2 , where A will be the position of the vortix after the distortion.
I think my way of solving the problem is correct, however I can't help but think there's a better way... If someone could throw me some light I'd appreciate.