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GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages 3681-3694Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-3681-2015
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- German Ministry of Education and Research [03IS2091D]
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We offer a versatile workflow to convert geological models built with the Paradigm (TM) GOCAD (c) (Geological Object Computer Aided Design) software into the open-source VTU (Visualization Toolkit unstructured grid) format for usage in numerical simulation models. Tackling relevant scientific questions or engineering tasks often involves multidisciplinary approaches. Conversion workflows are needed as a way of communication between the diverse tools of the various disciplines. Our approach offers an open-source, platform-independent, robust, and comprehensible method that is potentially useful for a multitude of environmental studies. With two application examples in the Thuringian Syncline, we show how a heterogeneous geological GO-CAD model including multiple layers and faults can be used for numerical groundwater flow modeling, in our case employing the OpenGeoSys open-source numerical toolbox for groundwater flow simulations. The presented workflow offers the chance to incorporate increasingly detailed data, utilizing the growing availability of computational power to simulate numerical models.
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