English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Zendy Plus

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Zendy Tools

Zendy Open

A method was developed for flexible and robust grid refinement of ground-water models that use different types of numerical methods. One application is the use of a child (local scale) finite-element model to solve for local heat and (or) solute transport by using boundary conditions derived from a parent (regional scale) finite-difference model. This paper presents a new iterative method that uses ghost nodes to link different models. The models are solved iteratively based on the shared-node method for coupling a parent model that encloses a child model described by Steffen W. Mehl and Mary C. Hill in 2002. Ghost nodes are located within the parent model along a line or plane that passes through nodes of parent cells along the model interface. The links between the parent and child models-specified-flow boundary conditions for the parent model and specified-head boundary conditions for the child model-are achieved by using heads at ghost nodes and flows through the material in model cells between the child and ghost nodes. The ghost-node method can be used to link nonmatching grids that occur when parent-model cell edgedfaces do not coincide with child-model cell edgedfaces and the parent model nodes do not coincide with a ghost node. The ghost-node method is tested for two- and three-dimensional systems that are either homogeneous or moderately heterogeneous, and for matching and nonmatching grids. The coupled models are simulated by using the finite-difference MODFLOW and finite-element FEHM models for the parent and child grids, respectively. Results for models of two-dimensional, homogeneous systems having matching or nonmatching grids indicate that the new method is as accurate as coupling using shared-node method of two MODFLOW models having matching grids. The three-dimensional systems exhibit similar errors to the two-dimensional homogeneous systems with both matching and nonmatching grids

A New Ghost-Node Method for Linking Different Gound-Water Models and Initial Investigation of Heterogeneity and Nonmatching Grids