I am writing to inquire as to if there is a way to create time-varying temperature field and apply it to a part on Abaqus.

I am trying to model a cylindrical tank using coupled temperature-displacement approach for thermo mechanical stress analysis during heating/cooling cycle (i.e., thermal ratcheting).

The model, solely composed of tank shell, will be heating up following time-varying temp. field on part’s surface (top). To this end I prepared the Spatial temp. data (X, Y, Z, Field value) at each time step “t”. But I am having trouble implementing this data on ABAQUS platform (bottom). Could you advise on this matter?

FYI, the temperature data was calculated using STAR-CCM program. In this regard, will my issue require STAR-CCM-ABAQUS co-simulation process? I ask because I hope my issue is solvable just on ABAQUS with simple manipulations.