Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of velocity

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I feel as if I understand the conceptual difference between Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions. But I can't seem to follow the math. I have one example that I would greatly appreciate an explanation or full calculation for

Here $x_i$ denotes the position of a particle in the current configuration, and $X_i$ denotes its position in the reference configuration.

I am entirely on board on the velocity in the Lagrangian description. I cannot for the life of me figure out how the Eulerian description is computed nor why.

Can someone show me how the Eulerian description of the velocity is calculated?

I realize this belongs more in engineering than math, but the engineering stack is pretty dead.