Material differentiation of the spatial gradient of a smooth scalar field.
The material derivative represented by the spacetime Fréchet derivative.
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Restricting a spacetime Fréchet derivative to a spatial direction agrees with differentiating the fixed-time slice.
Vector-valued version of fderiv_uncurry_scalar_spatial.
The spacetime Fréchet representation is the ordinary material derivative when the scalar field is differentiable.
The forward-flow form of transport calculus: differentiating a scalar field along a characteristic gives its material derivative.
Along a flow characteristic, the spatial gradient differentiates by the
gradient of the material derivative and the usual velocity-gradient
correction. The eventual equality hgrad is the local identification of a
spatial slice derivative with the corresponding spacetime derivative.