CEE-432
Environmental Design Sessional
Dr. Bijit Kumar Banik
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Contact: bijit_sustbd@yahoo.com; bijit-cee@sust.edu
Lecture-8
Influence of different boundary conditions on
a Groundwater model using MODFLOW
2
Hamburg-Borgfelde
Model Design - Boundaries
Boundary type Boundary Name Common Applications
First kind, or
Dirichlet boundary
Prescribed
hydraulic head or
concentration
Lakes, rivers, springs,
constant-head wells
Second kind, or
Neumann
boundary
Prescribed flux of
head or
concentration
Impermeable boundary,
water divide, streamline,
infiltration, evaporation,
sinks, and sources
Third kind, or
Cauchy boundary
Semipermeable or
head dependent
flux
Leaky rivers, drains,
seepage face
• occurs when surface water body such as rivers, lakes,
canals, sea coast interact freely with the aquifer
• boundary condition most constraints the model solution and is
therefore the easiest to solve
• at least at 1 point in the model area head must be specified
First kind or Dirichlet condition
Second kind or Neumann condition
• occurs if the aquifer terminates against an impermeable
material
• identical to streamlines
• groundwater divides are no-flux boundaries
• model user must ensure that during the model simulation
the chosen boundary stays unaffected by the calculation
• boundary condition moderately constraints the model
solution and is therefore moderately difficult to solve
Second kind or Neumann condition
• represents leakage from surface water bodies where exchange
of water between aquifer and surface water depends on head
differences between surface water and groundwater
• occurs if the river bed acts as a semipermeable membrane
between the river and aquifer
• Boundary condition that least constraints the model solution
and is therefore the most difficult to solve.
Third kind or Cauchy condition
Further typical examples
1. Type 3. Type
2. Type
Aquifer
Well
River River
Well
Colmated Zone
Aquifer Aquicludes
Normal Flow
No Flow
1. Type (free GW)
2. Type (constrained
GW)
3. Type (semipermeable riverbed)
Further typical examples
10
Example area in Hamburg-Borgfelde model
Background information: Case (a)
Well
Well
11
Island of Foehr (North Sea) model
Background information: Case (b)
Well
12
Meander loop of the river Moselle model
Background information: Case (c)
Well
1100 L/min
1 80 m3/hr
2 70 m3/hr
3 60 m3/hr
4 50 m3/hr
Discharge rate
Group
14
Exercise (Main steps)
1. File → New Model (use separate folder, short name)
2. Grid → Mesh Size
Grid → Layer Type
Grid → Boundary Condition → IBOUND (Modflow)
Grid → Top of Layers
Grid → Bottom of Layers
3. Parameters → Time
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
Parameters → Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity
Parameters → Effective Porosity
4. Models → MODFLOW → Well
Models → MODFLOW → Run
15
Detail steps
File
16
Grid → Mesh Size
17
Grid → Mesh Size
18
Grid → Mesh Size
19
20
Grid → Layer Type
21
1
2
Grid → Layer Type
22
Grid → Boundary Condition
23
Right click on mouse
1
2
3
2
Grid → Boundary Condition
24
1
Create boundaries by clicking the mouse or just drag down
2
1
1
Grid → Boundary Condition
25
1
2
1
2
Grid → Boundary Condition
26
Grid → Top of Layers (TOP)
27
Grid → Top of Layers (TOP)
28
Grid → Top of Layers (TOP)
29
Grid → Top of Layers (TOP)
1
2
30
Grid → Bottom of Layers (BOT)
1
2
31
Grid → Bottom of Layers (BOT)
32
Grid → Bottom of Layers (BOT)
33
1
2
Grid → Bottom of Layers (BOT)
34
Parameters → Time
35
1
2
Parameters → Time
36
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
37
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
38
1
2
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
39
Right click on mouse
1
2
3
2
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
40
1
Insert boundary values by clicking the mouse or just drag down
2
1
1
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
41
1
2
1
2
Parameters → Initial Hydraulic Heads
42
Parameters → Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity
43
Parameters → Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity
44
1
2
Parameters → Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity
45
1
2
1
2
Parameters → Horizontal Hydraulic Conductivity
46
Parameters → Effective Porosity
47
Parameters → Effective Porosity
48
1
2
Parameters → Effective Porosity
49
1
2
1
2
Parameters → Effective Porosity
50
Models → MODFLOW → Well
51
Right click on cell (1,14,14)
1
3
2
Models → MODFLOW → Well
52
1
2
1
2
Models → MODFLOW → Well
53
Models → MODFLOW → Run
54
Models → MODFLOW → Run
55
Models → MODFLOW → Run
56
Viewing results
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Viewing results
58
3
1
2
Viewing results
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1
1
3
2
Viewing results
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Thank you

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