Water Environmental Modeling Laboratory
The Water Environmental Modeling Laboratory (WEML) creates state of the art environmental modeling software specializing in ground water, watershed, surface water, and blue algae monitoring & early-warning modeling. The mission of the WEML is to promote an atmosphere of academic research consistent with university goals where faculty and students can use environmental modeling and computer graphics to understand and solve complex environmental issues.
The faculty at WEML is actively involved in the following areas of research:
Groundwater models
- Geostatistics
- 3D plume characterization
- 3D characterization of stratigraphic units
- 3D meshing of stratigraphy models, visualization, and the integration of GIS and groundwater modeling.
Surface water models
- Automatic generation of finite element meshes based on user specified size functions.
- Automatic mesh editing/refinement based on solution data. This allows integration of the pre-processing phase with the numerical model.
- Creation of two-dimensional numeric model from one-dimensional data.
- Three dimensional graphics tools for visualization of results.
Watershed models
- Flood plain delineation
- Spatial computation of hydrologic loss and rainfall parameters
- Interfaces to several hydrologic models, including HEC-1, TR-20, F0601, TR-55, the Rational Method, and the National Flood Frequency method
- Delineation of watersheds using TIN-based, Vector-based, and Grid-based methods