The IHE Delft partnership programme, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, supports several activities related to online education development and take this opportunity to program Open Course Groundwater Modelling using MODFLOW and Model Muse in cooperation with Hatarilabs.

This course provides basic knowledge about MODFLOW and Model Muse, which can be used to develop, run, and post-process models. MODFLOW in Model Muse combines many of the capabilities found in MODFLOW 6, MODFLOW-2005, MODFLOW-NWT, MODFLOW-USG, and MODFLOW-LGR, and provides a platform for adding packages.

Objectives

The development of the course consists of practical exercises designed to demonstrate the functionality of MODFLOW applied in groundwater. In this course the student will learn to:

• Use the ModelMuse environment and tools for modeling.

• Know the potential of Model Muse to build MODFLOW models.

• Design a grid and boundary conditions.

• Build and simulate numerical models.

 

Course content

Session 1

Introduction to MODFLOW and Model Muse

Download and installation of MODFLOW

Description the main window of ModelMuse:

• Description the Main Menu and Buttons.

• Top, Front, and Side Views of the model.

• 3-D View of the model, and Status Bar.

Download and installation of Programs to MODFLOW

• Specifying the location where several programs related to MODFLOW with Modflow Program Location.

Session 2

Exercise: Learning the functions of the basic tools found on MODFLOW screen.

• Creating, Selecting and Editing Objects in ModelMuse.

• Description types of objects as Points, Polylines, Polygons, Straight – Lines and Rectangles.

Session 3

Exercise: Generating Grids on Model Muse

• Description tool menu Grid

• Specifying a uniform initial grid.

• Using Object to specify a grid.

Session 4

Exercise: Defining Layer Groups, Time on MODFLOW and learned about Output Control.

• Description tool MODFLOW Layer Groups.

• Defining spatial discretization.

• Specifying temporal discretization.

• Description about Output Control.

Session 5

Exercise: Description MODFLOW Package and Programs

• Learning about Flow Package.

• Knowing the principal functions about the Boundary Condition.

• Learning about Solvers, Observations, Post processors.

Session 6

Exercise: Developing a multilayer groundwater model

• Defining model grid

• Defining model properties

• Adding boundary conditions.

• Running the model

• Visualize the head hydraulic.

• Analyzing water balance

Session 7

Exercise: Three-dimensional steady-state simulation with recharge, constant-head, a river and wells.

• Definition of grid and vertical discretization.

• Definition of boundary conditions.

• Setting hydraulic parameters.

• Visualization of results and water balance.

Session 8

Exercise: Build a groundwater model

• Definition of active and inactive zone.

• Discretization of the aquifer.

• Establish the hydraulic parameters.

• Import DEM.

• Analysis of initial head.

Session 9

Exercise: Simulation a groundwater model

• Defining package and program

• Setting of boundary conditions: RCH, EVT, DRN.

• Analysis of the global water balance.

Session 10

Exercise: Simulation transient-state aquifer modelling with piezometers.

• Adding piezometers and wells

• Compare values observed and simulated.

• Representation of the water table.

Trainer

Saul Montoya M.Sc. 

Saul Montoya M.Sc. is a Hydrogeologist and Numerical Modeler. Mr. Montoya is a Civil Engineer graduated from the Catholic University in Lima with postgraduate studies in Management and Engineering of Water Resources (WAREM Program) from Stuttgart University – Germany with mention in Groundwater Engineering and Hydroinformatics. Mr Montoya has a strong analytical capacity for the interpretation, conceptualization and modeling of the surface and underground water cycle and their interaction. 

He is in charge of numerical modeling for contaminant transport and remediation systems of contaminated sites. Inside his hydrological and hydrogeological investigations Mr. Montoya has developed a holistic comprehension of the water cycle, understanding and quantifying the main hydrological dynamic process of precipitation, runoff, evaporation and recharge to the groundwater system. 

To join the open course

• This open course will be given on the IHE Delft OpenCourseWare platform: https://ocw.un-ihe.org/course/view.php?id=101

• This link will not ask to log in.

Date and time

August - 2020 (Central European Time (CET) - Amsterdam)

• Monday 03, 2020 from 6:00 p.m to 7:00 pm.

• Friday 07, 2020 from 6:00 p.m to 7:00 pm.

• Monday 10, 2020 from 6:00 p.m to 7:00 pm.

• Friday 14, 2020 from 6:00 p.m to 7:00 pm.

• Monday 17, 2020 from 6:00 p.m to 7:00 pm.