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The 18 pages that link to Material derivative, each with the reason it gives.
Continuum mechanicsRelated: It connects changing fields to the motion of the material carrying them.
Incompressible flowRelated: It expresses the density-change condition along each fluid trajectory.
Euler equationsRelated: It expresses the acceleration of fluid parcels in the momentum equation.
Control volumeRelated: It connects local spatial changes to changes followed along fluid motion.
Potential vorticityRelated: Conservation is expressed as zero material change in ideal flow.
Cauchy momentum equationRelated: It gives the acceleration when applied to the velocity field.
Helmholtz's theoremsRelated: The first theorem describes vortex lines transported with fluid motion.