MODFLOW-USG, coming soon
| June 11, 2012 | Posted by karmadsen under blog, Groundwater Modeling, Groundwater Modeling Software, Modeling Software, MODFLOW |
MODFLOW-USG (unstructured grid) is a new version of MODFLOW being developed by Sorab Panday.
According to the Aquaveo forum, MODFLOW-USG will probably be fully released at some point in 2012.
At this point it is difficult to find information about the full capabilities of the to-be-released MODFLOW-USG. However, it may offer significant flexibility over the current versions of MODFlOW, and provide a public domain alternative to FEFLOW.
Unlike the rectangular grid used to develop regular MODFLOW models, an unstructured grid is a mesh made out of triangles or tetrahedra. This allows a 3D simulation of the subsurface that expresses complex geological shapes. As described on the Groundwater Modeling Blog, it also would allow MODFLOW to run nested child models and parent models as a single simulation, rather than two separate simulations.
As much as we might like to claim him, Sorab Panday does not work for GMS.
Thanks. I have corrected the post.
- I do agree with all of the concepts you’ve icdortuned in your post. They are really convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very brief for beginners. Could you please prolong them a little from next time? Thanks for the post.