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Groundwater

GeoStudio provides comprehensive tools for groundwater analysis

The analytical challenge


Fresh water is one of the most precious and finite resources in the world.  Groundwater comprises a significant portion of that resource and it is often subject to mismanagement or pollution.  Managing groundwater resources means balancing demands that are often in tension; for example, balancing the need for fresh drinking water with the needs of agriculture, industry, power production, and the environment. Developing a good understanding of surface and groundwater interactions in natural and human-influenced systems is therefore critical.

The GeoStudio solution


GeoStudio offers a suite of products designed to address groundwater issues.  The hydrogeological behaviour of a system can be analyzed under steady-state or transient conditions.  Groundwater velocities can be used to model solute transport with first-order kinematic reactions such as decay or adsorption.  Gas transfer analyses can be included to study gas transport in the free and dissolved phases.  Land-climate interaction modelling can be conducted to develop closure plans for mine sites.      

 

Solution Examples

Explore documented examples on how GeoStudio can effectively analyze groundwater flow.

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Pond Filling and Draining

SEEP/W can simulate the filling and draining of a pond over time. The head in the pond depends on the volume of water seeping out of or into the soil, which can be simulated by a Head vs. Volume boundary condition. In the case above, the rising and falling head of the pond was delayed when compared to the rapid rise and fall of the river..

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Relief Well Spacing

Relief wells are commonly installed on the downstream side of an earth dam to control pore-water pressures within the dam and seepage along the downstream dam face. A 3D seepage analysis is required to design a relief well system, particularly for considering the required well spacing. This example demonstrates how to create and evaluate well spacing using SEEP/W and SEEP3D.

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Seepage Through Dams

Flow through an embankment dam is common problem considered in groundwater seepage textbooks, and may be modeled in SEEP/W. Multiple scenarios may be considered in a single analysis, including the presence of a toe drain or the addition of a core material with lower hydraulic conductivity.

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Saturated and Unsaturated Flow

The SEEP/W saturated/unsaturated material formulation allows for the evaluation of complex groundwater conditions. The computed pore water pressures can be used in SLOPE/W analyses to evaluate the stability of systems with complex pore water pressure conditions.

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Related products

GeoStudio's integrated products work in combination to provide effective analysis of groundwater systems.

 

SEEP/W + SEEP3D

Finite element analysis of groundwater flow in saturated / unsaturated porous media.

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SIGMA/W

Finite element stress and deformation analysis of earth and structural materials.

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TEMP/W + TEMP3D

Finite element analysis of heat transfer and phase change in porous media.

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GeoStudio's integrated products enable you to work across a broad range of engineering use cases.