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Introduction
ThisdocumentcontainsdetailsontypesofFiniteDifferencegridtypesthatcanbedesignedandsimulatedin VMODFlexandtheadvantages/disadvantagesofeach.
Background
TheFinitedifferencegridusedbyMODFLOWhasseveralrestrictions: Themodellayerscannotbezerothickness Modellayersmustbecontinuousacrossthedomain Whendesigningtheverticalnumericalgrid,severalapproachescanbeused: Uniformmodellayers(arectilineargrid) Deformedmodellayers Semiuniformlayers(deformedontopandbottom,withuniformlythicklayersinbetween) UsingVMODFlex,itispossibletodefinemultiplenumericalgrids,ofdifferenttypes,andcreateanumerical modelfromthisgrid,basedonyourconceptualmodel.Thismakesitpossibletoeasilychoosethemost appropriategridforyourproject,andgeneratethenumericalmodelfilesinminutes.
DeformedGrid
Inadeformedgrid,thetopsand Advantages: bottomsofthemodellayersfollowthe requiresasmallernumberoflayers horizonselevations(thegeological easytodesignandconstruct layers).Eachmodellayercorresponds toahydrogeologicalunit.Property Disadvantages: parametersareappliedtothefulllayer potentialinaccuracyproblems thickness.Youcanrefinethemodel pinchoutlayers,requiresyouto layers,bydividingthezonesinto manuallychangethepropertiesin proportionatelythicklayers. theseareas
CrosssectionofMODFLOWPropertieswithDeformedGrid
UniformGrid
Inauniformgrid,anumberoflayers withuniformthicknesswillbecreated. Atthetimeoftranslatingtheconceptual modeltothenumericalmodel,the propertieswillbeassignedtothe appropriategridcellstorepresentthe geologicalstructure.Gridcellsabove thetopmostgeologicallayer(andbelow thebottommostlayer)aresetas inactive. Thisgridisusefulfortransportor densitydependentsimulations,whereit isdesirabletohavefinevertical discretization.
Advantages: fullyrespectsthefinitedifference assumptions lessdisconnectedgridcells Disadvantages: requireslargernumberofcells timeconsumingtodefine manually(requiresyoutoassign thecorrectpropertiestothe appropriategridcells, individually)
CrosssectionofMODFLOWPropertieswithUniformGrid
Inasemiuniformgrid,thetopand Advantages: bottomofthegridaredeformed, Almostfullyrespectsthefinite followingthetopmostandbottom differenceassumptions mosthorizonsrespectively;in Lessdisconnectedgridcells between,asetofuniformlythick Couldbemorestableforlayersthat layerswillbegenerated.Atthetimeof pinchout translatingtheconceptualmodelto Topandbottomlayersdeform thenumericalmodel,theproperties willbeassignedtotheappropriategrid Disadvantages: cellstorepresentthegeological requireslargernumberofcells structure.Thisgridisusefulwhere timeconsumingtodefinemanually youhavediscontinuouslayers (requiresyoutoassignthecorrect propertiestotheappropriategrid cells,individually)
SemiUniformGrid
CrosssectionofMODFLOWPropertieswithSemiUniformGrid
Example
Anexamplewaspreparedbasedonthesimplegeologicalsettingshownbelow:
Conclusions
Theappropriategridtypeshouldbechosenbasedonyourprojectobjectives.Insomecases,itismore suitabletouseauniformgrid,however,duetothepracticallimitationsofdesigningandpopulatingthisgrid,it isnotcommonlyused.Asillustratedabove,itcantakeseveralhourstoconstructapropertymodelwiththis approach. UsingVMODFlex,anumericalmodelwithanyofthegridsabovecanbequicklyconstructedfromyour conceptualmodel.Sincethepropertyzonesinyourconceptualmodelaregridindependent,youcanchange yourgridtypeandquicklydesignandpopulatemultiplenumericalmodels,andselectthemostappropriate one.Youarenolongerrestrictedtousingthedeformedgridtype.Designingandpopulatingauniformor semiuniformgridcanbedoneinminutes,asopposedtohours.