Groundwater modeling

Spring fall 2014.

Homework #1

Objective
Building a steady state GW flow model using Processing Modflow v5.3.3

Task description
A square shaped pit is to be dewatered using 8 wells drilled on the sides of the pit.
The pit is excavated into a sandy gravel layer that is sensitive to liquification
therefore the pit should be dried out before the construction is started.

There is a near surface shallow aquifer of M thickness, K permeability and N0
porosity at the site. The groundwater level is in approx. 5 m depth from the surface.
The groundwater flow is from East to West direction, the representative hydraulic
gradient is 1 m/km.

The pit size is X X meters, there are fully penetrating wells bored at each
corners of the pit and also at the half of each pitside. The production rate of the wells
on the corners is Q, and the wells on the pitsides produce 20% less.

Subtasks:
1. Building of the model dataset, all the not defined parameters can be freely chosen
by the students
2. Runing the model and calculate the results
3. Determination of the Hydraulic Head distribution, drawing a contour map of it
(Please save the map into a raster graphic image (BMP, JPG, etc.))
4. Determination of pathlines to the wells for 1, 3 and 6 months transit time. (Please
save the pathlines into a raster graphic images (BMP, JPG, etc.))


Variational table Each student must choose one dataset from the 15 choices

Parameter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
M-Thickness
[m]
25 30 35 25 30 35 25 30 35 25 30 35 25 30 35
K hydr.
conductivity
[m/d]
25 40 50 40 50 25 50 25 40 50 40 50 40 50 40
N0 - Effective
porosity [-]
0.2 0.23 0.25 0.23 0.25 0.2 0.25 0.2 0.23 0.25 0.23 0.25 0.23 0.25 0.23
X Pitsize [m] 50 60 70 80 100 60 70 80 100 50 70 80 100 50 60
Q - production
rate [m3/d]
250 300 330 350 400 250 300 330 350 400 250 300 330 350 400





Sample outputs from a model
(grid and well locations, head distribution, pathlines of 1,3 and 6 months)