Groundwater modeling

Spring fall 2014.

Homework #2

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

Task description
A building of a linear subsurface structure needs a continuous dewatering activity along a
100 m section of the site. In all circumstances to secure the construction activities 6 wells in
20 m distance must operate on both sides of the linear structure in 30 m distance, therefore
there are always 12 wells operating (6 wells on both sides). Since in each week the
construction of 20 m is to be finished, there is always 2 wells installed on the front side and 2
wells abandoned on the rear side each week. The transient flow field during the total
construction period of 10 weeks is to be simulated.

There is a near surface shallow aquifer of M thickness, K permeability and N0
porosity at the site. The specific storage of the aquifer is 0.0001, the specific yield is 2% less
then the effective porosity. The groundwater level is in approx. 3 m depth from the surface.
The groundwater flow is from North to South direction, the representative hydraulic
gradient is 2 m/km. Constructed structure orientation is EW, and it is started from the East
side of the area.

The production rate of the wells on the ends are Q, and the mid-field wells 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 at the end of each week, 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 weeks transit time using data of any
time step considering steady flow field. (Please save the pathlines into a raster graphic
images (BMP, JPG, etc.))
5. An animation of the evolution of the stress field into a separate directory called
animation.

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
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)