Lecture GB - Methodology Setup Regional Models

8 important questions on Lecture GB - Methodology Setup Regional Models

Initial conditions = heads at beginning of our simulations

  • Only used for transient simulations
  • MODFLOW diff eq
  • integral Qi = wells, etc(?)
  • Integral Q(H)i  = (?)
  • Initial conditions on left hand side of eq
  • S = storage

What's the cov matrix used for? What's on the diagonals?

  • Diagonals have variances
  • St devs also (not sure where)
  • Can be used to calculate derived uncertainties 

What is most important within the Domain - Extent to take into account when defining the domain?

Example Binnenveld:

Extent:
  • Far enough > minor effect on Binnenveld
  • Regional GW flow pattern captured
  • Take aquifer with largest 'flow'
  • Upper aquifer mostly affected by local aspects
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Why is the Rijn invisible on equipotential lines of GW flow in the graph?

Rijn appears invisible on equipotential lines of GW flow: due to equipotential lines being based on largest aquifer in area, thus Rhine effect is not visible. However, huge amount of water flowing there is visible from equipotential lines, but this would be an interesting feature.

Why can upper and deeper aquifer equipotential lines deviate? Why do we pick flowlines of largest aquifer?


Depth and transmissivity

To not have conflicting boundaries, we have to simplify somewhere

On what is Dirichlet based and how is it brought into practise?

Prescribed head
Prac: isohypse

On what is Neumann based and how is it brought into practise?

Prescribed flux
Prac: flow line (no flow), eg perpendicular to equipotential lines, water divide

On what is Cauchy based and how is it brought into practise?

Combi Dirichlet and Neumann
Prac: effect of Dirichlet 'far' away, linearly interpolated using a formula including features (kD, LW)

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