CWI Team attends the 1st Australia & New Zealand FEFLOW Users Workshop

Posted 15 May 2010

Dr Wendy Timms (CWI), Dr Beatrice Giambastiani (CWI), Andrew McCallum (CWI) and Conrad Wasko (UNSW WRL) attended the 1st Australia & New Zealand FEFLOW Users Workshop from May 4th to 6th 2010.

The workshop brought together FEFLOW modellers, hydrogeologists, engineers, and policy makers from industry, government and university alike. Presentations were given by Peter Schätzl, and Hans Diersch from DHI-WASY, Berlin, Germany which gave insights into the latest capabilities and functionality of the FEFLOW groundwater modelling software. Further, the presentations provided a platform for discussion of additional capabilities for future versions FEFLOW.

WRL was well represented with Dr Timms presenting a keynote entitled "Reality Bytes: An Evolution of Numerical Groundwater in Research and Consulting" and Dr Giambastiani presenting on "Using Groundwater Modelling to Enhance the Understanding of the Maules Creek Alluvial Aquifer, Upper Namoi, NSW". Both talks were warmly received by the participants and promoted further discussion of the applications of groundwater modelling with the DHI-WASY representatives from Germany.

Following two days of presentations and discussion forums on the applications and functionality of FEFLOW, a workshop was held to train participants in the latest version of FEFLOW. FEFLOW 6 represents a complete upgrade on the interaction of the user with the model through an updated graphical user interface, similar to that of mainstream GIS software. The use of FEFLOW 6 at WRL is eagerly anticipated with improved visualisation and ease of processing results from groundwater simulations.

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