It is a continuation of work begun by Laura Toran and Libby West of the ORNL Environmental Sciences Division . The area modeled consists of approximately 7,500,000 sq. The current model consists of approximately 74,000 nodes and 64,000 elements and has been calibrated to measured groundwater elevations and surface water discharges. In addition, visualization of output is done using Earth Vision software developed by Dynamic Graphics.
Future work involves performing a sensitivity analysis on various model parameters.
This work will also be conducted on the Intel machines. This will create a powerful groundwater model that will be accessible to those who don't have access to supercomputers, but do have access to multiple workstations. The Intel and KSR1 computers are located in the ORNL Center for Computational Sciences .