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[mattsarg555]

Hello Lumerical Community,

I have been performing Steady State HEAT simulations and I was curious if the program provides you a way to get the thermal time constant from this solution. Is there a way to tell how long it takes for your system to get to steady state? I am trying to match the solution found in my steady state to a solution found in transient but it is not so easy.

Best!

[kghaffari]

Hi Thanks for reaching out. Like you suggested, you need to run transient simulation to estimate the time needed for reaching steady-state (time response is not provided in steady-state mode). Here is a video presenting a basic example of setting up a transient simulation in HEAT. Please let me know if you have further questions.
Kind regards