FloPy
Open SourceVerified
The Python interface to MODFLOW — build, run and post-process groundwater models entirely in code.
Groundwater & HydrogeologyActiveMODFLOWGroundwater Modelling
TimML
ActiveAnalytic element groundwater modelling in Python — multi-layer steady flow with no grid at all.
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- MIT
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install timmlAbout TimML
TimML, by Mark Bakker (TU Delft), models steady multi-layer groundwater flow with the analytic element method: wells, rivers, inhomogeneities and area sources are mathematical elements, the solution is exact everywhere, and there is no grid to design. A companion package, TTim, handles transient problems the same way.
For screening analyses, capture-zone estimates, dewatering first passes and teaching, this is often dramatically faster than setting up a gridded model — a well field takes minutes in a notebook. When heterogeneity gets serious you graduate to MODFLOW; TimML tells you whether you need to.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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