About Steady-State Heat Transfer Steps

A steady-state heat transfer step determines the static distribution of temperatures in a body due to conduction and boundary radiation. The response can be linear or nonlinear.

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

Steady-state analysis means that the internal energy term (the specific heat term) in the governing heat transfer equation is omitted. The problem then has no intrinsic physically meaningful time scale. Nevertheless, you can assign an initial time increment, a total time period, and maximum and minimum allowed time increments to the analysis step, which is often convenient for output identification and for specifying prescribed temperatures and fluxes with varying magnitudes.