**process torque

Description

This post-processing step computes the component of torque along a specified direction with respect to a reference point. It is only defined over node sets.

Syntax

**process torque \(~\,\) *point (point) \(~\,\) *direction (direction)

*point (point)

is the reference point. It should be a vector whose dimension matches the problem’s size, either 2D or 3D. For example (0. 0.) for 2D, and (0. 0. 0.) for 3D.

*direction (direction)

the direction vector along which the torque is computed.

Example

****post_processing
 ***global_post_processing
  **nset top
  **file node
  **process torque
   *point       (0. 0. 10.)
   *direction   (0. 0. 1.)
****return