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AQUIFEM-N - multi-layered finite-element aquifer flow model for confined and unconfined aquifers
AQUIFEM-N Categories: flow models - saturated zone, solute transport models
- saturated zone
AQUIFEM-N Overview
AQUIFEM-N is a multi-layered quasi-3D finite-element model capable of predicting groundwater flow in two or three dimensions and solute
transport in two dimensions. AQUIFEM-N uses linear triangular finite elements to represent the geometry of an aquifer and has very flexible options for assigning the spatial distributions of aquifer properties and
the spatial and temporal distributions of boundary values. AQUIFEM-N can be used to study steady and transient groundwater flow and contaminant transport in a single aquifer, steady and transient groundwater flow in
a system of coupled aquifers, and steady flow and steady and transient contaminant transport in a two-dimensional vertical section. AQUIFEM-N was developed in 1984-85 as a multi-layered extension of AQUIFEM-1
(Wilson et al., 1979; Townley and Wilson, 1980; Anderson and Woessner, 1992).
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