Many optimization algorithms exploit parallelism by calling multiple independent instances of the function to be minimized, and these function in turn may call off-the-shelf simulators. The I/O load from the simulators can cause problems for an NFS file system. In this paper we explore efficient parallelization in a parallel program for which each processor makes serial calls to a MODFLOW simul...

Regional groundwater flow systems often contain both strong sinks and weak sinks. A strong sink extracts water from the entire aquifer depth, while a weak sink lets some water pass underneath or over the actual sink. The numerical groundwater flow model MODFLOW may allow a sink cell to act as a strong or weak sink, hence extracting all water that enters the cell or allowing some of that water t...

Based on FBG fiber Bragg grating technology and BOTDA distributed optical fiber sensing technology, this study used fine sand to simulate overburden layer in vertical shaft model equipment. The placing technique and test method for optical fiber sensors in the overburden layer were studied, combined with MODFLOW software to simulate the change of the water head value when the overburden layer w...

A ground-water flow and transport model simulating contaminant movement to public supply wells in the High Plains aquifer near York, Nebraska was developed as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program. Water-quality samples were collected from wells screened in unconfined and confined units. Samples collected from a public supply well and selected monitoring w...

A rise in the shallow unconfined groundwater at a site in Australia is causing water logging of the underground facility in the affected area. Realizing this problem, a study was conducted to identify the source of water that is causing the rise and to develop an implementation and operation plan of the mitigation (dewatering system). Modelling was undertaken using MODFLOW-SURFACT code, within ...

abstract the coupled modflow-hydrus software package was used to produce a saturated-unsaturated flow model for a flood spreading system (fss) and its associated aquifer. the study aim to improve simulations of near-surface hydrological processes, including temporal and spatial variation in groundwater recharge rates. the coupled model was built with average rmse=1.1 and 1.3 for calibration and...