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[Manish Patel]

I am doing a pool boiling simulation where heatedWall has constant wall temperature boundary condition. 

Now, I want to get Total wall heat flux value at heatedWall. How can I do that in ANSYS Fluent? 

More specificaly my question is, in surface integral, Do I need to do the area weighted average, integral, sum, area etc. or something else? 

[Rob]

I'd look in the Reports>Fluxes panel. 

[Manish Patel]

Reports>Fluxes gives total heat transfer rate (W). Which I divided by the area and I found that it is same value as reported by surface integral>Area averaged>Total Heat Flux. So, it's correct method right? Just want to confirm. 

[Rob]

As in I'd take the Flux Report value as that's returned directly from the solver, and is available as you're reporting on a mesh surface.