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April 2012 AEM Course

3 Day Shortcourse - Application of Steady-State and Transient Multi-Layer Analytic Element Groundwater Models: Bethesda, Maryland, April 23-25, 2012

This course will accomplish three principal objectives:

Provide participants with sufficient AEM theory that they can construct and apply AEM models, and correctly interpret the results obtained.

Teach participants the in and outs of TimML and TTim for solving practical groundwater problems using both short Python scripts and a GIS-based GUI. (Recent research has resulted in the development of a transient multi-layer AEM code called TTim (pronounce: Tee Tim) as a companion to the popular steady multi-layer code, TimML).

Expose participants to the application of PEST for the estimation of model parameters in TimML and TTim

Visit SS Papadopulos for more information.

Update: International Conference on Analytic Element Methods and More, postponed until 2013

The next International Conference on the Analytic Element Method has been postponed until 2013. Details to follow.

Fitts Geosolutions offers new analytic element software

AnAqSim (Analytic Aquifer Simulator) is groundwater flow modeling software based on an analytic element approach that divides the modeled region into subdomains (Fitts, 2010, Water Resources Research). It uses finite difference time steps to offer complete transient capabilities. AnAqSim handles multi-layer (3D) flow and also does fresh/salt water interface flow. AnAqSim is much more powerful and versatile than earlier analytic element programs like TWODAN (previous Fitts Geosolutions software).

Visit FittsGeoSolutions for more information.

Scam alert

The book Analytic Element Method from Alpha Script Publishing (paperback) most likely a scam. amazon link

from wikipedia: Alphascript Publishing sells free articles as expensive books

An Amazon.com book search on 9 June 2009 gives 1009 (6 August, gives 1,859) "books" from Alphascript Publishing.[nan 1] 1003 of the books are described as "by John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, and Agnes F. Vandome". They are called editors in the book listings. It seems the only content of the many books is free Wikipedia articles with no sign that these three people have contributed to them.

The articles are often poorly printed with features such as missing characters from foreign languages, and numerous images of arrows where Wikipedia had links. It appears much better to read the original articles for free at the Wikipedia website than paying a lot of money for what has been described as a scam or hoax. Advertising for the books at Amazon and elsewhere does not reveal the free source of all the content. It is only revealed inside the books which may satisfy the license requirements for republishing of Wikipedia articles.

Update - Nov 2011 - Alphascript has changed its name to Betascript but continues to peddle Wikipedia articles as cheap textbooks. The Wikipedia entry on VDM publishing, the company behind these 'books' make interesting reading. VDM Publishing on Wikipedia link


Update: International Conference on Analytic Element Methods and More, postponed until 2013

The next International Conference on the Analytic Element Method has been postponed until 2013. Details to follow.

Recent Publications in the AEM Wiki Bib

Gaur, Shishir, Djamel Mimoun, Didier Graillot,2011. Advantages of the analytic element method for the solution of groundwater management problems, Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8071, 11pp.

Bakker, M.,2010. Hydraulic modeling of riverbank filtration systems with curved boundaries using analytic elements and series solutions,Advances in Water Resources, 33,813-819.

Haitjema, Henk, Sergey Kuzin, Vic Kelson, Daniel Abrams, 2010. Modeling flow into horizontal wells in a Dupuit-Forchheimer model, Ground Water,48(6):878-883, November-December.

Fitts, C.R., 2010. Modeling aquifer systems with analytic elements and subdomains, Water Resour. Res., 46, W07521, doi:10.1029/2009WR008331.

Haitjema, H.M., D.T. Feinstein, R.J. Hunt, and M.A. Gusyev, 2010. A hybrid finite-difference and analytic element groundwater model, Ground Water, 48(4):538-548.

Mehnert, E., 2010. Groundwater flow modeling as a tool to understand watershed geology: Blackberry Creek watershed, Kane and Kendall Counties, Illinois, Illinois State Geological Survey, Circular,576, University of Illinois, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, Champaign, Illinois