Introduction MT3DMS is a three-dimensional (3D) multispecies contaminant transport model with a modular structure to permit simulation of solute transport processes independently or jointly (Zheng and Wang 1999; Zheng 2009). MT3DMS interfaces directly with the U.S. Geological Survey’s finite-difference ground water flow model, MODFLOW, for the flow solution, and supports all the hydrologic and ...

The multi-species transport model MT3DMS is applied to simulate heat transport in shallow confined aquifers. This is done by taking advantage of the mathematical similarities between the description of heat and solute transport. A comprehensive analysis on the applicability of MT3DMS (version 5.2) for heat transport simulation of closed shallow geothermal systems is shown. MT3DMS simulations ar...

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...

Predicting and characterising groundwater flow solute transport in engineering hydrogeological applications, such as dimensioning tracer experiments, rely primarily on numerical modelling techniques. During software selection for modelling, the accuracy of results, financial costs simulation software, computational resources should be considered. This study evaluates approaches outlines advanta...

PHT3D, a three-dimensional, MODFLOW/MT3DMS-based reactive multicomponent transport model is presented. The model couples, via an operator-splitting method, the transport simulator MT3DMS (Zheng and Wang, 1998) and the geochemical package PHREEQC-2 (Parkhurst and Appelo, 1999). Through the flexible, generic nature of PHREEQC-2, PHT3D can handle a broad range of equilibrium and kinetic reactive p...