For the upper curved half of , take the vector field and outward unit normal. Its divergence is . The odd term integrates to zero over the half-ellipsoid. Scaling a unit half-ball gives . The equatorial closing disk has downward flux . The divergence theorem therefore gives the displayed curved-surface flux. The constant vertical component is not detected by the divergence, but is recovered by accounting for the closing disk.
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