Planning Notes

Notes from April 8

Getting started with MODFLOW 6 and FloPy (2 hours – Langevin, Hughes)
- Overview presentation
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise
Structured and unstructured discretization strategies (quadtree, triangular, and voronoi meshes, and local grid refinement) (1 hour – Langevin, Larsen)
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise
XT3D multi-point flux approximation for modeling aquifers with full three-dimensional anisotropy (1 hour – Provost, Russcher)
- Presentation with anisotropic calisthenics
- Demonstration

LUNCH

Solute and Energy Transport (2 hours – Langevin, Morway, Panday)
- Overview presentation
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise
Advanced packages (Multi-Aquifer Well, Streamflow Routing, Lake, Unsaturated Zone Flow, Water Mover, and Compaction and SUBsidence) (2 hours – Hughes, Morway)
- Multi-Aquifer Well (Hughes)
- Lake (Hughes)
- Streamflow Routing (Morway)
- Unsaturated Zone Flow (Morway)
- Water Mover (Morway)
- Compaction and SUBsidence (Hughes)

Variable-density groundwater flow and transport (1 hours – Langevin, Panday)
- Overview presentation (BUY, VSC)
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise
Introduction to the new Particle Tracking (PRT) Model for MODFLOW 6 (1 hour – Bonelli, Provost)
- Overview presentation
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise
Setting up and running parallel MODFLOW 6 simulations on laptops, desktops, and supercomputers (2 hours – Hughes, Larsen, Russcher)
- Overview presentation
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise

LUNCH

Using the MODFLOW Application Programming Interface (API) to couple with other models, create custom MODFLOW packages, and control MODFLOW during a simulation (2 hours – Hughes, Larsen, Russcher)
- Overview presentation
- Live Notebook demonstration/exercise
Future Directions/Wrap Up (2 hours)
- NetCDF Input and Output (Reno)
  - Overview presentation
  - Demonstration
- Channel component
- Richards
- Watershed component
- Seawater Intrusion Package
- Linear network flow component
- Etc.