Section: New Software and Platforms

HeMaTiS

Heat and Mass Transfer in Soils

Functional Description

HeMaTiS is a set of Finite Volume programs (variants concern different geometrical configurations: 1D, 1D-radial, 2D, 3D-axisymmetric) for computing the transient heat diffusion in soils when there is a phase change of water. Currently, the soil is modelled by a heterogeneous porous medium having constant thermo-physical properties, and the porous medium is saturated with water. The phase change is treated by means of the Apparent Heat Capacity method. In the near future, we plan to use an unsaturated model (but limited to small water content), and an effective thermal conductivity which depends on the local humidity (this latter law may reveal hysteresis behaviour). The software is written in Fortran 95 and is based on the Muesli library. A Computer Algebra System (Maple or Maxima) is used to compute the Jacobian matrix.

• Authors: Édouard Canot, Mohamad Muhieddine, Salwa Mansour and Renaud Delannay

• Contact: Édouard Canot