UnSat Suite

What is UnSat Suite?

Simulate the migration of water and contaminants through the Vadose zone

The UnSat Suite is designed to simulate the one-dimensional flow of groundwater and the transport of contaminants through unsaturated areas.

Overview

The UnSat Suite groundwater software product is specifically designed to handle the one-dimensional flow of groundwater and the transport of contaminants in the unsaturated zone. This one-dimensional model simulates the vertical downward flow of groundwater and the migration of dissolved contaminants into groundwater through a thin column of soil.

UnSat Suite allows you to quickly and easily create a one-dimensional unsaturated zone model using simulation code that best adapts to site conditions and provides various methods for visualizing and managing your projects, generating input data, presenting modeling results, and sharing data between models.

Available Models

SESOIL - a popular model of the U.S. EPA, capable of simultaneously modeling water transport, sediment transport and the destination of pollutants.

PESTAN - a model for evaluations of groundwater contamination by pesticides used in agricultural practice.

VS2DT - a numerical model of finite difference to determine the destination of agricultural chemicals, leached from landfills and accidental spills of chemicals in the unsaturated zone.

VLEACH - a model for evaluating the fate of volatile organic contaminants in the unsaturated zone.

Product details

The UnSat Suite groundwater package features numerous tools and design elements that enable you to produce professional flow simulations. Features of this product include:

Unified modeling environment - Interface design accommodates the specialized features and analysis capabilities of each model while maintaining a consistent appearance for each dataset.

Easy to Use - The familiar design and functionality of the interface make learning extremely easy and make it easy to develop models quickly using any of the available templates.

Project Wizard - Guides you through the process of setting up a model dataset for any of the available programs.

Project Management - The project-based data management system that frees the user from handling multiple files for separate projects.

Input Data - The Project Data Tree allows you to quickly view and modify the profile data structure for each model profile or easily duplicate model data files to perform sensitivity analysis.

Graphical display - The profile view shows the geometry, dimensions, layer structure, and stratigraphy of the model profile.

Database Links - A customizable database of chemical and soil parameters is linked to various input ways for automatic input of selected property values.

Weather Generator - The internal Weather Generator generates up to 100 years of statistically reliable weather data to be used as an entry into SESOIL.

Seamless integration - Create the model profile(s), run simulations, visualize the results, and create the report documents; all in the same graphical modeling environment.

Presentation of results - UnSat Suite comes with a powerful graphical component to visualize simulation results for any of the models.

Automatic report generator - Create a rich text document with tabbed input data, profile charts, and a results view.

Teamwork - Supports team work environments so that project files can run on a networked system.

Data sharing - Export data from unsat suite unsaturated zone modeling results to use as flow limit and transport condition data in saturated zone groundwater models such as Visual MODFLOW.

Tutorials - Unsat Suite comes with a complete set of step-by-step tutorials covering the hands-on application of each template.

System requirements

UnSat Suite requires the following minimum system configuration:

PC Pentium

32 Mb RAM

25 MB of free disk space

Visor e mouse VGA

Windows 2000 / XP