About Transient Heat Transfer Steps

A transient heat transfer step determines the dynamic distribution of temperatures in a body due to conduction and boundary radiation over a given time period. The response can be linear or nonlinear.

See Also
Defining Transient Heat Transfer Steps
In Other Guides
Transient Analysis
Matrix storage and solution scheme in Abaqus/Standard

Time integration in transient problems is done with the backward Euler method (sometimes also referred to as the modified Crank-Nicholson operator) in the pure conduction elements. This method is unconditionally stable for linear problems.