Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Analytic Element Method in Modeling Groundwater Flow
Colorado School of Mines, Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center, Golden, Colorado
1–2 June 2019
Presentations are 40 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Organizing Committee
  • Dr. O.D.L. Strack, Chair, University of Minnesota
  • Randal Barnes, University of Minnesota
Technical Committee
  • Dr. Erik Anderson, Layne Christensen Company
  • Dr. Mark Bakker, Delft University of Technology
  • Dr. Randal J. Barnes, University of Minnesota
  • James R. Craig, University of Waterloo
  • Henk Haitjema, Indiana University (retired)
  • Otto Strack, University of Minnesota
Day 1 — Saturday, 1 June 2019
Welcome
  • Otto D.L. Strack
Session 1: Applications of Analytic Solutions and the Analytic Element Method
Chairs: Mark Bakker and Otto Strack
  • Wim J. de Lange: Analytic-based expressions for advective transport phenomena generating macro dispersion
  • Erik Anderson: The method of images for sloping boundaries
  • Erik A. Toller and Otto D.L. Strack: Interface flow with vertically varying hydraulic conductivity
Session 2: Analytic Element Modeling, Part I
Chairs: Randal Barnes and Henk Haitjema
  • Mark Bakker and David Brakenhoff: Analytic elements for cross-sectional multi-layer modeling
  • Huite Bootsma: Modern, responsive, and interactive analytical element modeling
  • Randal J. Barnes: Object-based analytic elements: a synthesis of old and new ideas that yields a new implementation
Day 2 — Sunday, 2 June 2019
Session 3: Analytic Solutions
Chairs: Erik Anderson and Wim de Lange
  • Ali Ameli: Efficient watershed management using semi-analytical groundwater–surface water interaction models
  • Mark Bakker: Tidal propagation in multi-layer coastal aquifers that extend below the sea
  • Otto D.L. Strack and Sami Kinnunen: Subsurface irrigation with horizontal drains
Session 4: Analytic Element Modeling, Part II
  • Otto Strack: An approximate vertically integrated flow formulation for aquifers with a base that varies mildly in elevation
  • Bill Olsen: An aquifer check valve for limiting contaminant movement