Computational Tools¶

Most computations related to Groundwater Hydrology can be accomplished using a computer spreadsheet such as Excel or LibreOffice. Similarly, Jupyter Notebooks running a python kernel work well too, as does the R kernel.

Complex groundwater modeling is professionally accomplished using accepted software such as MODFLOW akthough for pedagogic reasons, a bit of time is spent homebrewing simpler instances of such models.

For homeworks Excel is sufficient, but show some sample calculations to explain each row in a spreadsheet. Readers who are comfortable using Jupyter will find some advantages there.

The section on models presents three (3) alternative methods to build and run MODFLOW models.