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GMDSI Workshop: Simulator Partner Technologies: When to use What, and Why – Perth

Description The last few years have seen considerable advances in methodologies and software that can be used in partnership with numerical simulation to support groundwater management and decision-making. These advances are both exciting and daunting. They are exciting because they provide modellers with a smorgasbord of powerful tools that can perform a wide variety of […]

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3D Ensemble Space Inversion and Nonstationary Geostats

This comprehensive tutorial demonstrates fast, efficient calibration of a complex 3D model. It complements a previous tutorial on a similar subject. However it shows how calibration results can be better, and can be achieved more easily, with recent software advances. Pilot points are used in an innovative way. They support hydraulic property characterization of a

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Decision-Support Modelling Appropriateness and the Journey of Information

This short monograph packs a lot of punch. It starts by solving an almost trivial, nonunique inverse problem. While simple, the problem is typical of many that are encountered on an everyday basis in decision-support groundwater modelling. Solution of this problem provides important insights into the journey that information takes as it is harvested by

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Optimization under Uncertainty using DSI

Optimization under uncertainty is notoriously numerically intensive. However its numerical burden can be reduced if data space inversion (DSI) is used to construct a surrogate statistical model that can be used in place of the numerical model. This tutorial explores how new ideas from the petroleum industry can be explored using programs from the PEST

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ENSI and Linear Analysis

Ensemble space inversion (ENSI) enables efficient, regularisation-constrained calibration of complex, highly-parameterised models. This tutorial demonstrates how linear analysis can be undertaken in partnership with the ENSI calibration. This provides estimates of parameter and predictive uncertainty at minimal numerical cost. This tutorial is a continuation of another GMDSI tutorial. These tutorials can be done independently or

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Ensemble Space Inversion

Ensemble space inversion (ENSI) is implemented through the PEST_HP suite (version 18). Using ENSI you can calibrate a complex model quickly. The calibration subspace is comprised of random parameter realisations as well as individual parameters. Realisations can be different for different parameter types. Regularisation seeks a minimum error variance solution within the confines of the working

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From Site Concepts to a 3D Site Model

Building and history-matching a three-dimensional model is a difficult procedure. The third dimension increases parameter requirements, model run times, and model output uncertainty. Ideally, predictive uncertainty can be reduced through assimilating information from site characterisation on the one hand, and measurements of system behaviour on the other hand. But this is so much harder in

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Conceptual Model to Numerical Model

This tutorial explores the use of “conceptual points” as a precursor to model parameterisation. Expected hydraulic properties are provided at these conceptual points. Just as importantly, so-called “hyperparameters” are also ascribed to these points; these are used to characterise the nature of hydraulic property heterogeneity as it is likely to prevail in their vicinity. All

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Data Assimilation for a Simple Model

This tutorial explores construction of the interface between PEST/PEST++and a simple MODFLOW/MODPATH model, and how to then subject that model to history-matching and uncertainty analysis–including data space inversion (DSI).There is some overlap with a previous tutorial. However, there are also some important differences. Use of the PLPROC, TPL2PST and PESTPREP2 utilities are explained. The first

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