I am running an uncoupled thermomechanical simulation. I need the heat flux (calculated in the heat transfer simulation) for my static, general simulation. I've tried to use predefined field to load the heat flux (HFL), as you would do with nodal temperature (NT), into the simulation setup, but get an error saying that it is not a nodal value. This seems to be because HFL is an element output with nodal position. Is there a way around this?

If not, is there any other way/ user subroutines, that I could inform my uncoupled mechanical simulation of the HFL in the heat transfer simulation?

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