• Thumbnail for Solenoidal vector field
    vector calculus a solenoidal vector field (also known as an incompressible vector field, a divergence-free vector field, or a transverse vector field)...
    4 KB (430 words) - 08:36, 28 November 2024
  • as the sum of a conservative vector field and a solenoidal field. A line integral of a vector field v {\displaystyle \mathbf {v} } is said to be path-independent...
    23 KB (3,529 words) - 10:53, 16 March 2025
  • be a solenoidal vector field. Let v : R 3 → R 3 {\displaystyle \mathbf {v} :\mathbb {R} ^{3}\to \mathbb {R} ^{3}} be a solenoidal vector field which...
    4 KB (686 words) - 21:32, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poynting vector
    solenoidal vector field (one with zero divergence) to S will result in another field that satisfies this required property of a Poynting vector field...
    34 KB (4,674 words) - 20:30, 13 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Magnetic field
    of the B-field produced this way is that magnetic B-field lines neither start nor end (mathematically, B is a solenoidal vector field); a field line may...
    105 KB (12,990 words) - 18:32, 6 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gauss's law for magnetism
    It states that the magnetic field B has divergence equal to zero, in other words, that it is a solenoidal vector field. It is equivalent to the statement...
    13 KB (1,439 words) - 07:06, 2 July 2024
  • vector field, a vector field on a Riemannian manifold associated with a symmetry Solenoidal vector field, a vector field with zero divergence Vector potential...
    10 KB (2,694 words) - 19:13, 11 February 2025
  • and a solenoidal (divergence-free) vector field. In physics, often only the decomposition of sufficiently smooth, rapidly decaying vector fields in three...
    44 KB (7,266 words) - 03:08, 20 April 2025
  • calculus identities Vector algebra relations Directional derivative Conservative vector field Solenoidal vector field Laplacian vector field Helmholtz decomposition...
    22 KB (2,135 words) - 04:00, 8 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic tensor
    {A}}={\vec {B}}} ( A → {\displaystyle {\vec {A}}} is a vector potential for the solenoidal vector field B → {\displaystyle {\vec {B}}} ). Note that { d F =...
    18 KB (3,463 words) - 17:22, 24 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Field line
    outside the sources. In a solenoidal vector field (i.e., a vector field where the divergence is zero everywhere), the field lines neither begin nor end;...
    15 KB (2,033 words) - 07:08, 22 February 2025
  • (divergence) vanishes, and is called an incompressible flow (sometimes solenoidal vector field). The term incompressible is used because a non-zero divergence...
    14 KB (2,603 words) - 05:48, 22 April 2025
  • Flow velocity (redirect from Velocity field)
    \mathbf {u} =0.} That is, if u {\displaystyle \mathbf {u} } is a solenoidal vector field. A flow is irrotational if the curl of u {\displaystyle \mathbf...
    5 KB (639 words) - 07:25, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Divergence
    vector calculus, divergence is a vector operator that operates on a vector field, producing a scalar field giving the quantity of the vector field's source...
    32 KB (4,599 words) - 04:36, 10 January 2025
  • coordinates analysis of solenoidal vector fields, for example, magnetic fields and incompressible fluids. For a three-dimensional vector field F with zero divergence...
    5 KB (625 words) - 21:31, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Maxwell's equations
    magnetic field is a solenoidal vector field. The Maxwell–Faraday version of Faraday's law of induction describes how a time-varying magnetic field corresponds...
    76 KB (7,989 words) - 19:59, 29 March 2025
  • the volume form is preserved under the flow of a solenoidal vector field. Thus solenoidal vector fields are precisely those that have volume-preserving...
    14 KB (2,341 words) - 15:01, 22 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Stream function
    divergence-free field like u {\displaystyle \mathbf {u} } , also known as a solenoidal vector field, can always be represented as the curl of some vector potential...
    17 KB (2,635 words) - 17:43, 14 April 2025
  • an incompressible fluid the flow velocity field is a solenoidal vector field or a divergence-free vector field. Note that this relationship can be expanded...
    97 KB (15,470 words) - 17:03, 23 March 2025
  • vectors in other words, ∇ × F = λ F {\displaystyle \nabla \times \mathbf {F} =\lambda \mathbf {F} } . If F {\displaystyle \mathbf {F} } is solenoidal...
    8 KB (1,062 words) - 21:56, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lorentz force
    magnetic fields are different facets of the same electromagnetic field, and in moving from one inertial frame to another, the solenoidal vector field portion...
    61 KB (8,652 words) - 10:11, 22 April 2025
  • constant c {\displaystyle \mathbf {c} } or any divergence free (solenoidal) vector field, e.g. Incompressible flows without sources or sinks such as phase...
    45 KB (7,532 words) - 20:30, 12 March 2025
  • Scalar field Solenoidal vector field Stokes' theorem Submersion Surface integral Symmetry of second derivatives Taylor's theorem Total derivative Vector field...
    2 KB (156 words) - 12:13, 30 October 2023
  • Compressibility or Incompressible flow a property of a vector field, see Solenoidal vector field a topological property, see Incompressible surface a proof...
    420 bytes (81 words) - 22:25, 5 January 2023
  • system; also called a starter relay Transmission solenoid Solenoidal vector field, a vector field in mathematics characterized as having zero divergence...
    664 bytes (113 words) - 18:37, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Stokes flow
    aU} The Stokes solution dissipates less energy than any other solenoidal vector field with the same boundary velocities: this is known as the Helmholtz...
    24 KB (3,386 words) - 21:01, 11 February 2025
  • In mathematics, vector spherical harmonics (VSH) are an extension of the scalar spherical harmonics for use with vector fields. The components of the VSH...
    26 KB (5,424 words) - 23:25, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biot–Savart law
    velocity field) into the equivalent role of the magnetic induction vector B in electromagnetism. In electromagnetism the B lines form solenoidal rings around...
    21 KB (3,012 words) - 19:44, 28 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Sources and sinks
    Sources and sinks (category Vector calculus)
    {\displaystyle \nabla \cdot \mathbf {v} =Q} . For this kind of flow, solenoidal vector fields (no divergence) have no source or sinks. When at a given point...
    12 KB (1,413 words) - 23:42, 15 December 2024
  • Advection (category Vector calculus)
    \mathbf {a} } (such as a magnetic field) is being advected by the solenoidal velocity field u {\displaystyle \mathbf {u} } , then the advection equation above...
    9 KB (1,079 words) - 06:26, 10 March 2025