SVHeat 2D represents the next level in geothermal finite element modeling. Designed to be simple and effective, the software offers features designed to allow the user to focus on heat transfer solutions, not convergence problems or difficult mesh creation.

Great care has been taken to model our geometry CAD-style input after the popular AutoCAD(TM) software. Boundary conditions may be specified as constant or free-form equations of temperature or gradients.

The finite element solution makes use of fully automatic mesh generation and mesh refinement to solve the problem quickly as well as indicating zones of critical gradient.

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• AutoCAD(TM) style CAD input
• Average time for new user to be creating effective models: 30 minutes!
• Fully automatic mesh generation based on geometry
• Fully automatic mesh refinement based on any relevant problem variables. Read more about adaptive grid refinement in research published by Mansell, 2002.
• Customizable Solutions
• Fully automatic time-step refinement for transient problems
• Comprehensive user's, tutorial, and verification manuals
• Reduction in convergence problems over
  conventional software
• Improved climatic boundary interface
• Handling of conductive and convective heat fluxes
• Models stored in XML format for speed and easy data transfer
• Steady state or transient analysis
• Frozen or unfrozen analysis in saturated or unsaturated soils
• Model heat movement using an unlimited number of soil regions
• Import groundwater volumetric water contents from SVFlux
• Volumetric heat capacity represented by a constant or the Newman equation
• Temperature or flux boundary conditions may be represented as constants or free-form equations of time or position
• Coupling with SVFlux
• Solver runs on Red Hat Linux or Windows with support for hyper-threading and multiple processors