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The purpose of this course is to give you a good introduction to groundwater flow modeling. The official title of the class used to be "Groundwater Flow and Pollutant Transport Modeling". We have dropped the "Pollutant Transport" portion since we now offer a transport modeling class taught by Gus Williams. This course is a pre-requisite for the transport course which is taught in the following semester. This course is application oriented. We cover the fundamental equations and the modeling theory but the emphasis is on teaching you how to solve real world problems. At the end of the semester, you should feel confident in your ability to develop and calibrate a complex 3D groundwater model. Most of the homework assignments for this course are solved with a computer. We will learn to use several groundwater models including SEEP2D, MODFLOW, and MODPATH. We will also be using the Groundwater Modeling System (GMS). GMS is a graphical pre- and post-processor for the groundwater models we will be using. Using GMS will allow you to learn the fundamental issues related to groundwater modeling without forcing you to spend hours manually organizing input data in a text editor. GMS is available to you on campus in the CAEDM lab the CAEDM labs. If you wish to use GMS on your home computer, you may download a PC version of GMS from the EMSI Web Site. After you have downloaded and installed GMS, launch GMS and select the Register command in the File menu. E-mail the security string to me and I will give you a temporary password that will enable GMS. |
