Average HEAT FLUX

- March 5, 2018 at 6:00 pm
  
  uschas
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, I have selected some surfaces as name selection and want to know the Average heat flux through those areas. The analysis is steady-state thermal in the workbench.
  
  Thanks.
- March 6, 2018 at 10:36 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Hi uschas,
  
  If you are using ANSYS Workbench 19.0, Heat Flux now includes an average value.
- March 7, 2018 at 11:18 pm
  
  uschas
  Subscriber
  
  Thanks, Is there any way to do it in ANSYS 18? I dont have ANSYS 19. The student version is limited to number nodes.
- March 7, 2018 at 11:49 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  That is a new feature in ANSYS 19.0, which is available for Student, Research and Commercial licenses now.
  
  If you want to do that in ANSYS 18, you will have to export tabular data and perform your own averaging.
- February 19, 2020 at 3:55 pm
  
  Wasif
  Subscriber
  
  Peter, if you manually average those two values the result is different than the one provided by ANSYS
- February 19, 2020 at 4:23 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  The average is not half way between the Min and the Max, it is the average of all the nodes along the edge.