Applied Groundwater Modeling [Hardcover]

Anderson Mary P./ Woessner William W. (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Academic Pr (January 30, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0120581035
• ISBN-13: 978-0120581030
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,626,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 1st class content - very bad print, November 27, 2007

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Miljø Ressourcer DTU "Søren Jessen" (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport (Hardcover)

This book is probably the best ever written on the subject. In other words, the content is really 1st class.
However, the print quality is so poor that I wonder how Anderson and Woessner or their 'managers' did ever even think about letting Elsevier do the print. It looks like something that come out of a fax machine. The figures are difficult to read. Grey-scales in figures have turned into slightly different tones of just black, and sometimes you need the Academic Press print of 1992 to fully understand the figures. The layout of tables that run over two or more pages have been altered to become inlogic compared to the Academic Press print version. Also the letters of the bulk text lacks reader friendliness. My advise is to look for the book printed by academic press and not by Elsevier.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great content but poor binding, March 30, 1999

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This review is from: Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport (Hardcover)

This text was used in my groundwater modeling class and was useful and instructive specifically for GMS and MODFLOW. The binding split after normal use during the quarter to almost every student enrolled in the course.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Focus is on applying numerical codes, April 15, 2009

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Simon Woodward (Hamilton, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Applied Groundwater Modeling: Simulation of Flow and Advective Transport (Hardcover)

What I like about this book is the breadth it provides on the art and philosophy of groundwater modelling. It is really about the practice of applying existing codes, there is very little detail about the theory behind the codes. There are numerous examples mostly using FDM (MODFLOW, PLASM) and occasionally FEM codes (AQUIFEM-1), and lots of discussion on things to keep in mind. There are whole chapters on (1) boundary conditions (2) transient models and (3) conceptual models which I thought was great. There is a useful discussion on water balance too. There is very little however on unsaturated flow or solute transport, both of which get only a few pages in the last chapter.