Flux – Journal of Geology and Geoscience

Flux describes any effect that appears to pass or travel through a surface or substance. Flux is a vector quantity, describing the magnitude and direction of the flow of a substance or property. flux may be a single vector, or it may be a vector field of position. In the latter case flux can readily be integrated over a surface. By contrast, according to the electromagnetism, flux is the integral over a surface; it makes no sense to integrate flux for one would be integrating over a surface twice. Their names in accordance with the quote would be surface integral of electric flux and surface integral of magnetic flux, in which case electric flux would instead be defined as electric field and magnetic flux defined as magnetic field.