Understanding the Laplacian Operator: ∇(∇ * q) vs. Other Operations

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franky2727

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Jan 16, 2009

∇(∇ * q) does this equal the laplacian or something else?

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I'm going to guess that's supposed to be a dot product on the first nabla? That makes it grad(div(q)). It's equal to the laplacian plus some other stuff. The other stuff is curl(curl(q)).

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