Curl of vector exclusively in 3D

Comparing the quiver plots of the vector function and its curl (also a vector function)
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Updated 18 Mar 2022

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Live Script showing an example of a vector valued function w in 3D space (x, y, and z coordinates) evaluated as a quiver plot. The curl of w is also a vector field with direction towards the counter-clockwise-rotating w flow, following the right-hand rule.

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Roche de Guzman (2026). Curl of vector exclusively in 3D (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/108244-curl-of-vector-exclusively-in-3d), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2022a
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1.0.0