Hi all,
As far as Maxima skills are concerned, I am an absolute beginner.
I have some equations invloving 2nd rank tensors, and I need the derivative of the tensorial equation with respect to a tensor.
After spending many hours with pen-paper, I though of directly getting the results via Maxima.
As a simple example, I need the derivate of expression P^{T}?A?P? with respect to the tensor P, where A is a tensor function of P.
I throughly searched the documentation , but I wasn't able to find the right set of commands for this purpose.
I will be very thankful if someone can guide me about the usage of tensor calculus for this purpose.
Best regards,
Mubeen.
P.S: my apologies for any mathematical mistakes; being an engineering student, my knwoeldge about tensor is just introductory.