Groundwater Modeling System (GMS)

• Create a complete groundwater simulation including site characterization, model development, post-processing, calibration, and visualization.
• Incorporate TINs, solids, borehole data, 2D & 3D geostatistics, and both finite element and finite difference models in 2D & 3D in your mine analysis.
• Construct a conceptual ground water model directly on top of a scanned map of a site using GIS objects. Boundary conditions and parameter values can be assigned directly to the GIS objects.
• Simulate flow in confined or unconfined profile models or for confined areal models. For unconfined models, flow can be modeled in both the saturated and unsaturated zone. Solutions can be displayed using plots of flow vectors and head contours.
• Generate a complete flow net with equipotential lines and flow lines to analyze ground water flow impacts due to mine activity.
• Analyze flow through earth dams and levees.
• Model impact of mine dewatering operations to regional or local aquifers (PHC evaluation, CHIA development).
• Model predictions of spoils aquifer resaturation (PHC evaluation, CHIA).
• Model movement of contaminant plumes (PHC evaluation, CHIA).
• Import and use traditional borehole logs and various types of site characterization data to plot stratigraphy or to build TINs or solid models.
• Geophysical data including data from cone penetrometer tests (CPT) can also be imported and plotted. The geophysical data can be infer stratigraphy or they can be filtered and converted to scatter points for 3D interpolation.
• Modeling the stratigraphy at a site. Borehole, scatter point, and geophysical data can be used to construct stacked surface models using TINs, or fully 3D volumetric models using boundary representation solid models. Solid models can be sliced interactively to construct simple cross section plots or complex fence diagrams.
• Compute volumes.
• Generate animations to analyses and predict the fate of a contamination plume or mine discharge over time.

Uses by Discipline

AML Reclamation Specialists

• Generate animations to analyses and predict the fate of a contamination plume or mine discharge over time.

Hydrologists

• Create a complete groudwater simulation including site characterization, model development, post-processing, calibration, and visualization.
• Incroporate TINs, solids, borehole data, 2D & 3D geostatistics, and both finite element and finite difference models in 2D & 3D in your mine analysis.
• Construct a conceptual ground water model directly on top of a scanned map of a site using GIS objects. Boundary conditions and parameter values can be assigned directly to the GIS objects.
• Simulate flow in confined or unconfined profile models or for confined areal models. For unconfined models, flow can be modeled in both the saturated and unsaturated zone. Solutions can be displayed using plots of flow vectors and head contours.
• Generate a complete flow net with equipotential lines and flow lines to analyze ground water flow impacts due to mine activity.
• Analyze flow through earth dams and levees.
• Model impact of mine dewatering operations to regional or local aquifers (PHC evaluation, CHIA development).
• Model predictions of spoils aquifer resaturation (PHC evaluation, CHIA).
• Model movement of contaminant plumes (PHC evaluation, CHIA).

Installation Instructions

GMS 6.0 Installation Instructions

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Contacts for Software Help

Tom Galya OSM-CFO 304-347-7162 x 3047
Clairene Bailey OSM-CFO 304-347-7162 x 3045