Lumped heat capacitance matrix and temperature oscillation.
Hi,
When I was reading the Abaqus manual about transient analysis in thermal field, I found a sentence that says 'In transient analyses using first-order elements the heat capacity terms are lumped, which eliminates such oscillations....' (Transient analysis in Abaqus Analysis User's Guide 6.5.3).
I think that this 'oscillations' is related to not only explicit time integration, but also implicit time integration (such as Backward Euler method).