KWare Heat3D is a 3D Geophysical heat flow simulator. It allows design of a computational mesh representing rock geometry, properties, and magma body emplacement. The program models a variety of geologic structures and rock properties and their effect on both conductive and convective heat flow.
The graphical interface is readily used to develop and tailor the simulation to represent most geological conditions of magma intrusion and geological structure. Calculated thermal regimes are color encoded and updated in graphical display with each update stored as a file for future playback. This modeling goes well beyond that done by analytical solution of 1-D linearized expressions of thermal diffusion in that it calculates the nonlinear effects of heterogeneous media, temporal, spatial, and thermally varying properties, latent and radioactive decay heat, and magma convective heat transfer. As with most geophysical modeling, the results of these calculations are not mathematically unique for inversion applications. However, rigorous application of geological constraints afforded by this code can greatly reduce the number of simulations that might satisfactorily fit observations.
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