FlowPath: Groundwater Flow and Pathlines Simulation Model

DESCRIPTION

FLOWPATH is a two-dimensional aquifer simulation tool. It calculates steady-state hydraulic heads and drawdown distributions, groundwater velocities, travel times, capture zones, wellhead protection areas, and water balances. It uses a grid of up to 10,000 nodes with over 250 wells. It uses a finite difference computational scheme assuming a horizontal confined or unconfined aquifer with the possibility of surface water bodies.

Keywords

description: groundwater flow, path lines, travel times, finite difference
purpose: simulation
application: two-dimensional aquifers, confined aquifers, unconfined aquifers, non homogeneous aquifers.

SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY

      
         The software package can be purchased from      
            Waterloo Hydrogeologic Software      
            37 Watersdown Crescent      
            Whitby, Ontario      
            Canada L1R 1Z1      
            Phone: 416-404.0991      
            Fax: 416-404.1570      
         

AUTHORS

      
            Thomas Franz and Nilson Guiguer      
            Waterloo Hydrogeologic Software      
            37 Watersdown Crescent      
            Whitby, Ontario      
            Canada L1R 1Z1      
            Phone: 416-404.0991      
            Fax: 416-404.1570      
         

REFERENCES

• FlowPath User's Manual - Waterloo Hydrogeologic Software, 1993.

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