Torque in circular fluid motion

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I'm reading a book (intro to, by Davidson) about MHD now, but found I'm a bit rusty on tensors and curvilinear coordinates. It is written that for a circular flow the azimuthal component of the NS equations in the steady state gives (with F some body force)

[tex]\tau _{r \theta} r^2 =-\int _0 ^r r^2 F_{\theta} dr[/tex]

Shouldn't this read, for axisymmetric flow, without the square on both r's? I would argue that the remaining terms in the NS equations

[tex]\sigma _{ij,i}+F_j=0[/tex]

would yield for the azimuthal ([itex]\theta[/itex]) component (any suggestions welcome if the notation is obscure):

[tex]F_{\theta} = -\nabla \cdot \overline{\overline{\sigma}}_{\theta}=-\frac{1}{r} \frac{d}{dr}(r\sigma_{r \theta})[/tex]



Now the author continues,

[tex]\tau_{r \theta}=\mu r \frac{d}{dr}(\frac{u_{\theta}}{r})[/tex]

In which he says he used Newtons law of viscosity, which I think one can write

[tex]\tau_{ij}=\mu u_{i,j}[/tex]

(Is it by the way ok to write this as [tex]\overline{\overline{\tau}}=\mu \nabla \vec{u}[/tex]?)

But how does one come from that to the (r, theta) component?
 
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I managed to get the r,theta component of the stress tensor as it is written in the book now. But I still can't see why there would be squares on the r's in the first formula I posted; anyone?