How to set a Multi Aquifer Well (MAW) in MODFLOW 6 and Model Muse - Tutorial.png

Modeling the dynamic of the groundwater flow related to pumping was a challenge with the traditional Wel package in MODFLOW since wells are screened on the most part of the well depth crossing multiple layers of a groundwater flow model. The Multi Aquifer Well (MAW) package came as a solution for this complex behaviour of layer interaction in Modflow. Model Muse with Modflow6 can implement the MAW package with ease.

This tutorial shows the complete procedure to set up a MAW well on a 3 layer groundwater flow model, gives an overview of the package options and represents the well heads and well rates with scripts in Flopy.

The tutorial is based on a model done in this previous tutorial:

Groundwater modeling tutorial in MODFLOW 6 with regional flow, lakes, rives and piezometers