Affordable Analysis
VADOSE/W Basic puts the power in your hands to solve complex 1D vadose
zone and soil cover analyses accurately and confidently at the low
price of
$995. VADOSE/W Basic is licensed for engineering
consulting use and is available as a Perpetual Standalone License only.
Environmental Impact on Soil Conditions
Understanding unsaturated soil mechanics is now critical for geotechnical
engineers performing slope stability analyses, designing soil covers for
mine or municipal waste facilities, or determining the effect of
agricultural or irrigation projects on groundwater flow. Environmental
conditions at the ground surface, such as precipitation, evaporation and
transpiration, have been increasingly recognized as having a significant
impact on soil behaviour in the unsaturated or vadose zone. In fact,
“unsaturated soil mechanics may have more to do with the ground
surface moisture flux conditions than it has to do with the thickness
of the unsaturated soil zone” (D.G. Fredlund, Geotechnical News, Dec.
2001). So how can you determine the impact of environmental
conditions on the unsaturated zone? VADOSE/W provides a solution to
this problem.
Comprehensive and Powerful
VADOSE/W is a finite element software product for analyzing flow from
the environment, across the ground surface, through the unsaturated
vadose zone and into the local groundwater regime. Its comprehensive
formulation allows you to analyze both simple and complex problems.
For example, you can perform a simple analysis of ground infiltration
due to rainfall, or you can build a sophisticated model that considers
snow melt and root transpiration, as well as surface evaporation, runoff,
ponding, and gas diffusion. You can apply VADOSE/W to the analysis and
design of geotechnical, mining, hydrogeological, agricultural, and civil
engineering projects.
Easy to Use
A Complete Modeling Solution
VADOSE/W uses the same simple, CAD-like interface found in
GEO-SLOPE's popular GeoStudio 2007 suite of geotechnical software.
You can even estimate the material property functions from easily
measured parameters like grain-size, saturated conductivity,
saturated water content, and the air-entry value. If you make a
mistake, you can correct it using the Undo command.
Typical Applications
Using VADOSE/W Basic, you can analyze 1D flux boundary problems such as:
- Design and performance monitoring of single or multi-layered soil covers over mine and municipal waste facilities
- Development of climate controlled pore-water pressure distributions on natural or man-made slopes for use in stability analyses
- Determining infiltration, evaporation and transpiration rates resulting from agriculture, irrigation projects, or natural systems
- Predicting oxygen or radon gas diffusion and decay through the vadose zone
- plus many more!
VADOSE/W Basic includes all the features of the full VADOSE/W 2007 product,
with these limitations:
- Maximum 500 elements in a 1D column
- Maximum 10 regions
- Maximum 10 materials
- Simplified thermal model only (constant frozen / unfrozen thermal properties)
- No user Add-in functions
- No boundary condition functions (other than climate and vegetation)