Divergence in local coordinates

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I'm working on an electrostatics problem and I'd like to find out what the divergence is in a weird coordinate system.

The problem is a cone with a fixed charge.

In the attached image, you can see that $x$ is the distance along the cone and $y$ is the distance normal to the cone.

Everything is axisymmetric about the red line.

My question is, what is the divergence in terms of $x$ and $y$ and PHI ($\phi$)? Thanks.

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