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Micromechanics of composites/Proof 7

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Curl of the transpose of the gradient of a vector

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Let be a vector field. Show that

Proof:

The curl of a second order tensor field is defined as

where is an arbitrary constant vector. If we write the right hand side in index notation with respect to a Cartesian basis, we have

and

In the above a quantity represents the -th component of a vector, and the quantity represents the -th components of a second-order tensor.

Therefore, in index notation, the curl of a second-order tensor can be expressed as

Using the above definition, we get

If , we have

Therefore,