The Time Curve dialog box lets you define or import a time curve to define time-dependent quantities for nonlinear and transient thermal studies.
You define X and Y pairs or read them from a text file. The Y value of the time curve is a multiplier to the associated quantity. For example, a force of 200 psi associated with time curve A specifies a force as shown in curve B. At any instant of time (t), the value of the force applied by the program is the specified force magnitude times the Y-value of curve A at time (t). You can define up to 5000 points
For transient thermal studies, you can specify variation with time for temperature, convection, heat flux, heat power, and radiation. You can define a time curve when specifying the variation of a quantity with time for a particular study or you can save the curve to a library for retrieval by other documents.