Panel Discussion: Groundwater Models - Aspiration vs. Reality
It’s the classical dilemma faced by groundwater consultants: The client provides sparse and fuzzy input data yet expects quick and precise predictions, while the modeler would much rather work on a generous schedule, from a comprehensive and reliable data set, and with the understanding that uncertainty will be integral part of any results.
How are these interests to be balanced so that we maintain integrity and remain true to sound scientific and engineering principles?
Moderated by Michael B. Butts, DHI Denmark
Discussing:
- Craig T. Simmons
Flinders University & National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, Australia - John Doherty
Watermark Numerical Computing, Brisbane, Australia - Emil O. Frind (tbc)
Waterloo University, Waterloo, Canada - Fabien J. Cornaton
DHI-WASY, Berlin, Germany - Hans-Jörg G. Diersch
DHI-WASY, Berlin, Germany
Keynote lectures
Modelling of Artificial Groundwater Recharge
Wolfgang Kinzelbach
ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Variable density groundwater flow: approaches, challenges and future resolutions
Craig T. Simmons
Flinders University & National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, Australia
Dealing with uncertainties in groundwater protection
Emil O. Frind
Waterloo University, Waterloo, Canada
Environmental models - rarely right but quantifiably wrong
John Doherty
Watermark Numerical Computing, Brisbane, Australia
On the use of some specific transport solutions for the calibration of flow models and the exploitation of flow solutions
Fabien J. Cornaton
DHI-WASY, Berlin, Germany
Local balance accuracy in finite elements: myth and truth
Hans-Jörg G. Diersch
DHI-WASY, Berlin, Germany
