I am looking for a transient finite element model that handles heat and mass (stable isotope) transport and nonisothermal fluid properties (thermal buoyancy driven flow). Preferably with text input and output files so I can link with UCODE. FEFlow, COMSOL, or TOUGH2 would work. I would love to learn TOUGH2, especially iTOUGH2, but I don't have any money or financial support and I have no government or academic affiliation at this time.
The code I used for my MS thesis in 2002 was written by Steven J Cook for his PhD dissertation in 1992. I recently tried to recompile the code but I couldn't find a compiler that works. Apparently there have been some significant changes to the C language (written in C90?) and getting the code compiled is beyond my abilities.
I would be using the numerical model (or compiler) to improve and publish my MS work (12 years later!).
Any help with compiling suggestions or free numerical modeling programs would be very much appreciated!
"sutra" from the usgs is free and does heat or solute transport as well as density dependent flow. .
And there is a version SUTRA-MS that does both heat and multiple solutes.
You can definitely get all of that done using the MOOSE framework: http://mooseframework.com . We have done an extensive amount of buoyancy driven flow and you can transport anything you like. It's open source so that fits in with your financial considerations ;-)
You can see some of the work we've done in this area (a small piece) here: http://www.inl.gov/technicalpublications/Documents/4460711.pdf
If you want more information just let me know.
If you need finite element discretization scheme, FEFLOW remains a reference, despite its prohibitive cost!
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