Flux (disambiguation)

Flux is a rate of flow through a surface or substance in physics, and has a related meaning in applied mathematics.

Flux may also refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

• Flux (biology), movement of a substance between compartments
• Flux (metabolism), the rate of turnover of molecules through a metabolic pathway
• 4-Fluoroamphetamine (4-FA; PAL-303; "Flux"), a central nervous system stimulant with quasi-amphetamine effects
• Dysentery, or other diseases called "flux", which cause the loss of fluid by diarrhea or hemorrhage
• Rheumatism (historically), or "flux", thought to be caused by an excessive flow of rheum or fluid into a joint
• Slime flux, a bacterial disease that occurs on certain trees

Computing

• Flux (machine-learning framework)
• Flux (graphics software), a suite of VRML/X3D viewing/authoring software
• Flux (software company), a developer of workflow software
• f.lux, a program that adjusts the color temperature of a computer display
• Fast flux, a DNS technique used by botnets to hide phishing and malware delivery sites

Physics and engineering

Materials

• Flux (metallurgy), a chemical reducing agent, flowing agent, or purifying agent enhancing success in soldering and like joining of metals
• Ceramic flux, a substance which lowers the melting point and promotes glass formation in ceramic materials and glasses
  • Secondary flux, a substance which acts as a ceramic flux in combination with other materials or at higher temperatures

Something integrated over a surface

• Electric flux, the electric field through a surface integrated over the surface's area
• Luminous flux, luminous intensity integrated over solid angle. Used in photometry
• Magnetic flux, magnetic field through a surface integrated over the surface's area
• Radiant flux, the total power emitted by a source. Used in radiometry

Something per unit area

• Intensity (physics), power per unit area (sometimes also called flux)

People with the name

• Alfred William Flux (1867–1942), British economist and statistician
• Robert Flux, guitarist of the band Oomph!
• Maarten van der Vleuten (born 1967), Dutch composer and producer, alias Flux

Art and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Flux (comics), a Marvel Comics antagonist opposing the Hulk
• Flux (Dennis Sykes), a character in the Marvel Comics series 1 Month 2 Live
• Flux Wildly, a character in the computer game Toonstruck

Literature

• Flux (novel), a book by Stephen Baxter
• "Flux", a short story by Michael Moorcock

Music

• Flux (Caveman Shoestore album), 1994
• Flux (Poppy album), 2021
• Flux (Rich Robinson album), 2016
• Flux, an album by Love Spirals Downwards, 1998
• "Flux" (Bloc Party song), 2007
• "Flux" (Ellie Goulding song), 2019
• "Flux", a song by Lamb of God from New American Gospel, 2000

Other uses in art and entertainment

• Flux (magazine), a music, comic book and video game magazine of the 1990s
• MTV Flux, a former television channel in the United Kingdom and Japan
• Doctor Who: Flux, the thirteenth series of the British science fiction television programme

Organizations

• Flux (political party), a political party in Australia
• The Flux Foundation, an arts non-profit group

Other uses

• Flux, Utah, a ghost town and former mining community in Tooele County, Utah
• Flow (psychology), often referred to as flux
• "Flux", the imagery of the River in the fragments of the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus

See also

• Æon Flux, an animated television show
• Fluxus, an art movement
• Fluxx, a card game
• Influx (disambiguation)