Cs382

This page documents the work of CS382 - Scientific Computing, Fall 2007

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enVision Tabletop Groundwater Simulator

General Instructions

• Setup
• Teardown and cleaning
• Packing and travelling

Instructions for Demonstrations

• First one
• Second one
• etc.

Computational Groundwater Simulations

Fitz and Bryan

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Peter and Mikio

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Brad and Nate

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Activities in Manual

• Level I: Teaching Basic Groundwater Facts and Concepts with the Model
  • 2-1: Demonstrating porosity
  • 2-2: Porosity demonstrations
  • 3-1: Illustrating the water table (groundwater not flowing)
  • 3-2: Illustrating the water table (groundwater flowing)
  • 3-3: Raising and lowering the water table
  • 4-1: Describing recharge, transition and discharge areas
  • 5-1: Describing the slope on the water table (hydraulic gradient)
  • 6-1: Observing water level differences in wells in recharge and discharge areas
  • 6-2: Potentiometric surfaces
  • 7-1: Illustrating groundwater flow in a confined aquifer
  • 7-2: Groundwater flow in an unconfined (water table) aquifer
  • 8-1: Illustrating and describing groundwater contamination
  • 9-1: Pump and Treat, How to operate the syringe system
  • 9-2: In-situ treatment
• Level II: Using the Groundwater Model (Elementary - Middle School)
  • 10-1: Describing the model
  • 11-1: Illustrating and calculating porosity
  • 12-1: Estimating the permeability of soils
  • 12-2: Graphing the permeability of soils
  • 12-3: Determining the actual permeability (MS)
  • 12-4: Illustrating the water table
  • 12-5: Explaining the water levels in water wells
  • 12-6 Explaining a sloping water table
  • 12-7 Determine the amount of water (discharge) flowing through the model
  • 14-1: Demonstration illustrating what happens when contaminants in groundwater have densities that differ from groundwater
  • 14-2: Illustrating how water wells are contaminated
  • 14-3: Illustrating the effect of pumping wells on contaminated aquifers
  • 14-4: Illustrating how contaminant concentrations can be changed in groundwater