Example #1 - Calibrating SPLIT Groundwater Flow Model
Using OSTRICH for groundwater calibration.
This example demonstrates groundwater model calibration (i.e. minimization of the WSSE objective function) using the GML algorithm. The groundwater model is known as SPLIT and is an implementation of the high-order analytic element approach to groundwater modeling. See www.groundwater.buffalo.edu for links to download SPLIT executables, examples, and documentation. The goal of the calibration is to estimate three hydraulic conductivity parameters: the background hydraulic conductivity (\(K_{back}\)), and two circular zones of inhomogeneity (\(K_1\) and \(K_2\)). Running the example using OSTRICH.bat will launch the Gauss-Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm in serial (i.e. on a single processor). Running the example using mpirun.bat will launch the GML algorithm in parallel.