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Coupled surface-water and ground-water model

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Abstract

In areas with dynamic and hydraulically well connected ground-water and surface-water systems, it is desirable that stream-aquifer interaction be simulated with models of equal sophistication and accuracy. Accordingly, a new, coupled ground-water and surface-water model was developed by combining the U.S. Geological Survey models MODFLOW and BRANCH. MODFLOW is the widely used modular three-dimensional, finite-difference, ground-water model and BRANCH is a one-dimensional numerical model commonly used to simulate flow in open-channel networks. Because time steps used in ground-water modeling commonly are much longer than those used in surface-water simulations, provision has been made for handling multiple BRANCH time steps within one MODFLOW time step. Verification testing of the coupled model was done using data from previous studies and by comparing results with output from a simpler four-point implicit open-channel flow model linked with MODFLOW.
Publication type Conference Paper
Publication Subtype Conference Paper
Title Coupled surface-water and ground-water model
ISBN 0872628116
Year Published 1991
Language English
Publisher Publ by ASCE
Publisher location New York, NY, United States
First page 330
Last page 336
Conference Title Proceedings of the 1991 National Conference on Irrigation and Drainage
Conference Location Honolulu, HI, USA
Conference Date 22 July 1991 through 26 July 1991
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