Higher Dimensions
The Leibniz integral rule can be extended to multidimensional integrals. In two and three dimensions, this rule is better known from the field of fluid dynamics as the Reynolds transport theorem:
where is a scalar function, and denote a time-varying connected region of and its boundary, respectively, is the Eulerian velocity of the boundary (see Lagrangian and Eulerian coordinates) and is the unit normal component of the surface element.
The general statement of the Leibniz integral rule requires concepts from differential geometry, specifically differential forms, exterior derivatives, wedge products and interior products. With those tools, the Leibniz integral rule in -dimensions is:
where is a time-varying domain of integration, is a -form, is the vector field of the velocity, denotes the interior product, is the exterior derivative of with respect to the space variables only and is the time-derivative of Note that in -space, .
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