How to determine the normal flux along a curved surface?


Dear users,
I am working on a Natural convection problem via freeFEM?
A researcher has plotted the results of Normal(grad(T)) along a circle see the top right figure.
what will be the command of Normal(grad(T)) along a Circle in FreeFEM?
Detail is attached in the image below.

just do

   macro grad(u) [dx(u),dy(u)]//
   real flux =  int1d(Th,circle)( grad(T)'*[N.x,N.y]) ;

Thanks for your kind guidance. It works fine for entire length but it gives only one values.
How do i plot along the running circle for entire running flux. mean x-axis (0-2pi) and y-axis (flux calculation from 0 to 2pi).
Check this command please .
see the first post where the results are plotted along a circle

for (int ii = 0 ; ii < nn; ii++)
{xx[ii] = ii/nn;

macro grad(u) [dx(u),dy(u)]//
flux[ii] = int1d(Th,circle)( grad(T)’*[N.x,N.y])(ii/nn,ii/nn) ;

ofstream gnu ( “Flux=.txt” );
for (int ii = 0; ii < nn; ii++)
gnu << flux[ii] << endl;}

Your question is not clear, so your idea never works.

I think, (but I am not sur) you to compute the flux on arc of size theta
where arc go from 0 to theta.

so the flux on the arc will be something like
int1d on arc(theta) of ( grad(T)’*[N.x,N.y])
if ( xc,yc) is the center of the circle the angle of circle is atan2(y-yc,x-xc) in [-pi,p2[ with 0 angle on axis x in -pi, pi

So you can compute make a loop for theta in [0, 2*pi]
int1d(Th,circle)( (pi+atan2(y-yc,x-xc) < theta )grad(T)’[N.x,N.y]);

Dear Professor, @frederichecht thanks for the useful discussion. The above command will work? If I just want to compute the rate of heat transfer i.e.
∂T/∂n
every point of the circle (radius=0.1, center=(0.5,0.2*sqrt(3))), where n is normal at every point of the circle. If the surface is not a curve, where I want to compute heat transfer, I simply use dx(T)(x,y) or dy(T)(x,y), where x and y are those points where I have to compute the rate of heat exchange.

It can be seen that as theta varies points at the surface also vary. So how to compute the value of Nu at other values of theta?