 Skew-symmetry of incompressible transport (source code)

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= Skew-symmetry of incompressible transport

For a periodic or boundary-tangent <divergence-free vector field> $u$, <integration by parts> gives
$$
\int (u\mathbin\cdot\nabla f)g
=-\int (u\mathbin\cdot\nabla g)f.
$$
Consequently $\int(u\mathbin\cdot\nabla f)f=0$, the cancellation underlying many fluid <energy estimates>.

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