HR: 14:40h
AN: H22F-05    [PDF]
TI: An Innovative Real-time Environment for Unified Deterministic and Stochastic Groundwater Modeling
AU: * Li, S
EM: lishug@egr.msu.edu
AF: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, A133, RCE, East Lansing, MI 48824 United States
AU: Liu, Q
EM: liuqu@egr.msu.edu
AF: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, A133, RCE, East Lansing, MI 48824 United States
AB: Despite an exponential growth of computational capability over the last two decades-one that has allowed computational science and engineering to become a unique, powerful tool for scientific discovery-the extreme cost of groundwater modeling continues to limit its use. This occurs primarily because the modeling paradigm that has been employed for decades limits our ability to take full advantage of recent developments in computer, communication, graphic, and visualization technologies. In this presentation we introduce an innovative and sophisticated computational environment for groundwater modeling that promises to eliminate the current bottleneck and greatly expand the utility of computational tools for scientific discovery related to groundwater. Based on a set of efficient and robust computational algorithms, the new software system, called Interactive Groundwater (IGW), allows simulating complex flow and transport in aquifers subject to both systematic and "randomly" varying stresses and geological and chemical heterogeneity. Adopting a new paradigm, IGW eliminates a major bottleneck inherent in the traditional fragmented modeling technologies and enables real-time modeling, real-time visualization, real-time analysis, and real-time presentation. IGW functions as a "numerical laboratory" in which a researcher can freely explore in real-time: creating visually an aquifer of desired configurations, interactively imposing desired stresses, and then immediately investigating and visualizing the geology and the processes of flow and contaminant transport and transformation. A modeler can pause to edit at any time and interact on-line with any aspects (e.g., conceptual and numerical representation, boundary conditions, model solvers, and ways of visualization and analysis) of the integrated modeling process; he/she can initiate or stop, whenever needed, particle tracking, plume modeling, subscale modeling, cross-sectional modeling, stochastic modeling, monitoring, and mass balance analyses. IGW continually provides and displays results that are intelligently processed, organized, overlaid, and displayed. It seamlessly and dynamically merges heterogeneous geo-spatial data into graphical images - integrating related data to reveal the complex interplay among the geology, hydrology and chemistry across multiple spatial and time scales. This unprecedented capability in real-time modeling, steering, integration, analysis, and visualization transforms the way we model and profoundly expands the utility of groundwater model as a tool for research, education, and professional investigation related to groundwater.
UR: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lishug/igw
DE: 1829 Groundwater hydrology
DE: 1831 Groundwater quality
DE: 1832 Groundwater transport
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting