HydroFrame Sandtank Educational Model

The ParFlow Sandtank model is a free tool that allows users to interactively simulate and visualize groundwater movement through a virtual slice of the subsurface. The app is designed to teach hydrogeology concepts. Users can adjust groundwater levels, change subsurface properties, pump groundwater, add pollutants and watch the system respond in real time.

The ParFlow Sandtank can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a supplement to existing lessons that use physical sand tank models. Refer to the User Manual and Lesson Plan Video For more information and check out the HydroFrame Education page for additional groundwater education resources.

ParFlow Sandtank is an open-source web application designed by the HydroFrame Team and developed by Kitware to support increased accessibility and usability of hydrology tools for research and teaching. It uses ParFlow for its simulation backend and ParaView for the data loading and processing. The communication infrastructure relies on the ParaViewWeb framework.

_{Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Award Number(s) DE-SC0019609 - Cloud/Web-based Advanced Modeling and Simulation Turnkey High-Performance Computing Environment for Surface and Subsurface Science and the US National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under Award number OAC-1835855.}

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HydroFrame Sandtank Educational Model