HR: 0800h
AN: H21E-1074    [Abstracts]
TI: ASEST - a Convenient Software Package for Subsurface Problems
AU: * Shan, C
EM: shan\_chao@sbcglobal.net
AF: Shans' Groundwater, 906 Peralta Avenue, Albany, CA 94706 United States
AB: In February 2004, Shans' Groundwater published a two-volume book, Analytical Solutions in Excel for Subsurface Transport (abbreviated as ASEST). Authored by C. Shan, the book has a large collection of analytical solutions for flow of water (or gas) and transport of chemicals in the subsurface. Solutions for aquifer problems are in Volume I, and solutions for vadose zone in Volume II. For each of the selected problems, the book gives the corresponding assumptions, the governing equation, the boundary/initial conditions, and the analytical solution. All analytical solutions are programmed in Microsoft Excel ('97 version), which are loaded on a CD (totally 60 programs). The procedures, tips, and examples for running these programs are given in the book. To run a program, users simply open the Excel file and go to Sheet1, type input data in a table, and click a run button below the table. It usually takes a few seconds or minutes to run the program, which outputs the resulting data on Sheet2. For a two-column output, a figure is usually shown on Sheet3. ASEST is a convenient software package for solving many kinds of subsurface problems. It is also designed for everyone: university professors can use it in preparing their lectures, graduate students can use it in their course study and thesis preparation, researchers can use it to analyze data from laboratory or field experiments, code developers can use it to verify their numerical programs, and consultant engineers can use it to obtain some first-cut results for their projects. More detailed information about the book is given at the website: http://www.shans-groundwater.com .
UR: http://www.shans-groundwater.com
DE: 1899 General or miscellaneous
DE: 1829 Groundwater hydrology
DE: 1832 Groundwater transport
DE: 1866 Soil moisture
DE: 1875 Unsaturated zone
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting