 Absolute-vorticity flux tensor (source code)

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= Absolute-vorticity flux tensor
{title2=$T_{ij}=u_i\omega_j-\omega_i u_j$}

For a flow satisfying <incompressibility>, this antisymmetric tensor writes advection and <vortex stretching> in conservative form. With its first index as transport direction, $(\nabla\cdot T)_j=\partial_iT_{ij}$.

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