Groundwater Modeling System

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GMS

GMS 6.0 screenshot
Developer:	EMRL at BYU
Latest release:	6.0 (minor updates not versioned) / June 9, 2006
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Use:	Hydrogeology software
License:	Proprietary
Website:	http://www.emrl.byu.edu/gms.htm

GMS (Groundwater Modeling System) is a complete program for building and simulating groundwater models. It features 2D and 3D geostatistics, stratigraphic modeling and a unique conceptual model approach. Currently supported models include MODFLOW, MODPATH, MT3D, RT3D, FEMWATER, and SEEP2D.

Version 6 introduced the use of XMDF (eXtensible Model Data Format), which is a compatible extension of HDF5. The purpose of this is to allow internal storage and management of data in a single HDF file, rather than using many flat files.

[edit] History

GMS was initially developed by the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University in the late 1980s on Unix workstations. It was developed primarily for The United States Army Corps of Engineers and is still known as the Department of Defense Groundwater Modeling System or DoD GMS. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows platforms in the mid 1990s. Version 3.1 was the last supported version for HP-UX, IRIX, DEC-OSF, and Solaris platforms.

Current development of GMS is done by the The Environmental Modeling Research Laboratory (EMRL) at Brigham Young University.

[edit] References

Owen, S.J.; Jones, N.L., and Holland, J.P. (1996). "A comprehensive modeling environment for the simulation of groundwater flow and transport". Engineering with Computers 12: 235–242. DOI:10.1007/BF01198737.