Tentative Schedule of Class Topics
Week of:   Topic Suggested Reading
Oct 22 examples of MODFLOW models, MODFLOW input file structure, packages box 3.1 (p. 77),ch. 1, MH 2 and 4
   27 peninsula-in-a-lake assignment, building layers in MODFLOW (Scott's test time 29 Oct - no applied modeling class on this date) ch. 3, MH 2-29 to 35
  Nov 3 conceptual models, layers, and data discretization; output control, transient models, recharge ch. 5, MH 7, ch. 7, MH 4, 8, 9, 11
   10 GW Vistas GUI, model requirements and GW Vistas GUI / Green Swamp model box 4.1, MH 6, 10
   17
MODFLOW package presentations, model calibration and sensitivity analysis ch. 8.1-8.5
   24 automatic parameter estimation, introduction to Spanish Springs NV, discuss the Freyberg paper
JGW v. 26, p. 350
 Dec
1 GIS and groundwater models, Spanish Springs summary, introduction to Fordville model, no class meeting on 3 Dec. - work on Fordville model

 
8 particle tracking theory, particle tracking examples, estimating water levels in a finite difference well; variably saturated flow  ch. 11, 5.1
  12 reading and review day
 
   17 final test at 5:30 PM (two hours)

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