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SVFlux is the most powerful and stable finite element groundwater modeling software currently available. The SVFlux software uses the powerful FlexPDE(tm) 1D / 2D / 3D solver which is highly automated. SVFlux allows you to spend your time solving your problem, not designing your mesh. With our automated solver and CAD front end, reductions in modeling time of over 70% are average. Groundwater models may be built as a series of surfaces and layers. Borehole or soil survey data may be used to build each groundwater model resulting in the possibility of extremely complex models. Our comprehensive documentation will get you modeling quickly!


SVFlux 1D is the ideal software for the evaluation of soil cover designs with coupled climate analysis...
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OUR NUMERICAL MODELING CLIENTS INCLUDE...
Designed to be simple and effective, SVFlux 2D offers features designed to allow the user to focus on seepage solutions, not convergence problems or difficult mesh creation... [click for details]
SVFlux 3D represents the ultimate in the 3D modeling of saturated and unsaturated groundwater flow. Our simple CAD-style input module allows for creation of your model as a series of surfaces and layers... [click for details]


Feature Student Standard Professional
Open/run demo models Yes Yes Yes
Create/edit models Yes Yes Yes
DXF Import   Yes Yes
Unlimited nodes * Yes Yes
Unlimited regions * Yes Yes
Anisotropy Yes Yes
Axisymmetric models Yes Yes
Plan view models Yes Yes
1D analysis Yes Yes
Probabilistic analysis   Yes
Climatic boundaries Yes
*Student editions are limited to 800 nodes in 2D and 1600 nodes in 3D.


  • Theory Manual - Full version only
  • Verification Manual - Full version only

Our software is currently being used by universities and consultants around the world. Mining companies in northern Canada trust SVFlux to model the water flow through tailings piles. Consultants trust SoilVision coupled with SVFlux for the geotechnical evaluation of the Seattle airport expansion. Geotechnical/geoenvironmental engineers, geological engineers, hydrogeologists, and soil scientists will realize a new level of modeling ease with SVFlux.

What is the value of automatic mesh refinement?

"Critical cases of water flow such as evaporation near the soil surface and infiltration into initially dry soil profiles typically create local mobile regions with large gradients of water head. Highly nonlinear relationships between hydraulic conductivity and pressure head contribute to very steep wetting fronts during infiltration into initially dry soil. In the vicinity of the wetting front for the initially dry soil, small values of hydraulic conductivity require very large gradients to move even a small amount of water (Pan and Wierenga, 1995). A short distance behind the wetting front, water content increases providing a much higher conductivity and much smaller head gradients. Insufficient local resolution for such cases of water flow can result in numerical oscillation and numerical smearing." (Mansell et al., 2002)

 

SVFlux is capable of performing steady-state or transient analysis. Soil properties used for analysis are a definition of the soil-water characteristic curve and either a saturated permeability or an unsaturated functional definition of permeability (hydraulic conductivity). Soil-water characteristic (soil moisture retention) curves and saturated or unsaturated hydraulic conductivities (permeabilities) may be determined in a laboratory or estimated using the SoilVision software.

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"The SVFlux software is very efficient, flexible and comprehensive. It fits well to different simulations while allowing you to quickly change several parameters without having to rebuild the model."

Fernando Junqueira
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
University of British Columbia, School of Mines

"Research projects often require the use of raw data from conventional software packages to be incorporated into advanced customized solutions. It is often hard to find commercial software that allows you access to the raw data. SVFlux not only gives you access, it allows you to export the raw data in several user defined formats. This feature has been invaluable in my Ph.D. program."

Jason Stianson
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Alberta

"The software developed by SoilVision Systems Ltd. for 3D saturated / unsaturated flow is a powerful tool for the analysis and design of reclamation systems for waste rock and mine tailings. Groundwater flow together with fate and transport issues are central to the design of remedial measures. SoilVision has demonstrated the ability to provide 3D solutions for difficult unsaturated flow problems in waste deposits at mine sites that cannot be solved using current software available. I feel that SoilVision offers a key service with respect to the remediation and design of long-term closure systems for mine waste management."

Dr. Ward Wilson
Professor
University of British Columbia
School of Mines

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