Groundwater Modeling Software MODFLOW 6 Now Available

MODFLOW 6, the newest version of the world’s most widely used groundwater modeling software, is now available for download from the U.S. Geological Survey. Redesigned to improve user experience and accommodate future features, MODFLOW 6 introduces a model coupling framework to the program that, for more than 30 years, has been used by academics, private consultants, and government scientists to accurately, reliably, and efficiently simulate groundwater flow.

Originally released in 1984 and updated in 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2005, the sixth core version of MODFLOW was redesigned from the ground up to incorporate many of the new advances in groundwater modeling developed over the past decade. Many of these new advances are based on the use of more flexible grids to discretize an aquifer system or the capability to couple other hydrologic processes with groundwater flow. MODFLOW 6 uses an object-oriented framework that allows new packages and models to be added to the software and allows any number of models to be tightly coupled together at the matrix level, with special emphasis placed on designing […]

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