Sinuosity of a streamline

get_sinuosity() is a function that computes the ratio of curvilinear length to Euclidean length for a streamline object, with a value of 1 indicating a perfectly straight streamline and larger values indicating greater curviness.

Usage

get_sinuosity(x)

Arguments

x

A streamline object.

Value

A numeric scalar \(\ge 1\).

Examples

sl <- streamline(points = cbind(X = runif(10), Y = runif(10), Z = runif(10)))
get_sinuosity(sl)
#> [1] 8.138817