Add option to return radial (inflow/outflow) from CalculateRadialWindProfile
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zarzycki commented
When using --radial_wind_profile...
In CalculateRadialWindProfile, the azimuthal wind is calculated:
// Calculate radial velocity
//double dUr = dUx * dRx + dUy * dRy + dUz * dRz;
// Calculate azimuthal velocity
double dUa = dUx * dAx + dUy * dAy + dUz * dAz;
We should also allow the user to request radial velocity (inflow/outflow to the node).
I am not sure the cleanest way to do this. Perhaps something like
radial_wind_profile(, , , , )
where if opt is 0, it returns azimuthal wind and opt is 1 is returns radial wind.
I believe you then could take the radially averaged azimuthal and radial and combine them to get the true wind magnitude (which is what you'd get with radial_profile(_VEGMAG(U,V),X,Y).
Where this would be useful is for calculating inflow angle/cross-isobaric diagnostics such as those in Nardi et al., 2022.