Investigation of the interaction of surface water (SW) and groundwater (GW) is critical in order to determine the effects of best management practices (BMPs) on the entire system of water resources. The objective of this research was to develop a modeling system for considering SW–GW interactions and to demonstrate the applicability of the developed system. A linked modeling approach was select...

This paper presents an approach for coupling MODFLOW and MT3DMS for the simulation of variable-density ground water flow. MODFLOW routines were modified to solve a variable-density form of the ground water flow equation in which the density terms are calculated using an equation of state and the simulated MT3DMS solute concentrations. Changes to the MODFLOW and MT3DMS input files were kept to a...

In order to simulate large-scale ground water flow problems more efficiently with MODFLOW, the OpenMP programming paradigm was used to parallelize the preconditioned conjugate-gradient (PCG) solver with in this study. Incremental parallelization, the significant advantage supported by OpenMP on a shared-memory computer, made the solver transit to a parallel program smoothly one block of code at...

This study proposes a transient groundwater modeling using spreadsheet simulation (TGMSS) model for solving groundwater problems. TGMSS may be considered as a practical method and introduction to groundwater modeling that uses spreadsheets instead of conventional groundwater model codes. Irregular aquifer geometry, variable boundary conditions and sinks and/or source values, heterogeneous aquif...

In an age of both big data and increasing strain on water resources, sound management decisions often rely numerical models. Numerical models provide a physics-based framework for assimilating making sense information that by itself only provides limited description the hydrologic system. Often, are best option quantifying even intuitively obvious connections between human activities resource i...

First posted March 3, 2022 For additional information, contact: Director, Integrated Modeling and Prediction DivisionWater Mission AreaU.S. Geological Survey12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., MS 411Reston, VA 20192-0002Contact Pubs Warehouse This report documents a new Groundwater Transport (GWT) Model for MODFLOW 6. The GWT simulates three-dimensional transport of single chemical species in fowing grou...