Heat Transfer analysis can be divided into two: the steady state analysis (state of the model: the temperature and heat flow rates, is steady) and transient analysis (time dependent).
This analysis type can be used to model the thermal changes in the ground due to environmental changes, or due to the construction of facilities, such as buildings or pipelines.
Heat Transfer is transmission of thermal energy due to a gradient in temperature.

Thermal energy is exchanged based on following phenomenological ways:

- Conduction: determines heat transfer from a hot to a cold object, that are in direct contact to each other.
The thermal conductivity of the different objects decides how much heat in which time is being transferred. 

- Convection: determines transfer of heat between two areas without physical contact. Convective heat transfer is the process that removes heat from a surface when that surface is exposed to fluid (liquid or gas) of a different temperature flowing over it.

After the heat transfer analysis, results such as temperature distribution, temperature gradient, heat flow direction / size are output.

Available under Construction Stage analysis.