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Wall heat flux from constant wall temperature boundary condition?

    • Manish Patel
      Subscriber

      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
      Forum Moderator

      I'd look in the Reports>Fluxes panel. 

    • Manish Patel
      Subscriber

      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
      Forum Moderator

      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. 

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