Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analytic Element Method in Modeling Groundwater Flow
Colorado School of Mines, Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center, Golden, Colorado
20–21 May 2017
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
  • Dr. James Craig, University of Waterloo
  • Dr. Wim J. de Lange, Deltares
  • Dr. Henk Haitjema, Indiana University (emeritus)
  • Dr. Dave Steward, Kansas State University
  • Dr. Otto D.L. Strack, University of Minnesota
Session 1: Application of Analytic Solutions and the Analytic Element Method
  • Randal Barnes: Shallow Unconfined Flow on a Sloping Base Redux
  • Erik Anderson: A Framework for Assessing Coastal Barriers
  • Anvar Kacimov, N.D. Yakimov, and J. Šimünek: Did Seepage Contribute to Collapse of Spillway of the Oroville Dam? Transient 3-D Phreatic Flow from Reservoir Impeded by Barrier: Decomposition into 2-D Analytic Elements
  • Wim de Lange, J. Varkaik, and H. van Meerten: Continuous-Forward Generation of a Plate-Shaped Resistance Layer Below Waterways or Roads – AEM-Based Analyses of Measured Situations in Laboratory and Field
Session 2: Modeling Time-Varying Groundwater Flow Using Analytic Elements
  • Mark Bakker: Time Series Analysis of Groundwater Dynamics with Simple Analytic Solutions
  • Marius Jigmond and S.C. Young: Application of an Analytic Element Model to Confirm the Conceptualization of a Major Fault in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer in Central Texas
  • Willem Zaadnoordijk, W. Borren, and M. Inckel: Groundwater Response to Drop in River Levels Caused by a Damaged Weir
Session 3: Analytic Elements and Analytic Modeling of Layered Aquifer Systems
  • Otto D.L. Strack: The Concept of Concentrated Leakage in Vertically Integrated Flow Modeling
  • Otto D.L. Strack: Modeling Vertically Integrated Flow of Aquifer Systems with Locally Perched Conditions
  • Mark Bakker: Analytic Element Modeling of Semi-confined Inhomogeneities in Multilayer Systems
  • Taha Namazi and O.D.L. Strack: Validation of the Concept of Concentrated Leakage
Session 4: Applications of the Hodograph Method
  • Otto Strack, B.K. Ausk, and Taha Namazi: An Exact Solution for Flow Due to Infiltration from Rainfall on a Mountain Range
  • Anvar Kacimov and Yu.V. Obnosov: Analytic Solutions by Hodograph Method to Phreatic Flow from Interfering Line Sources and Commingled Unsaturated Flow through Optimally Heterogenized Vadose Zone
  • Otto Strack: An Approximate Drain Spacing Formula for Evaporation
Session 5: Transport and 3D Modeling
  • William Olsen: Practical and Theoretical Mapping of Path Lines Between a Conceptual Model and Physical Observations
  • Wim de Lange: MODFLOW USG – An Opportunity to Combine 3D with AEM for Designing Practice?