Modelling Hydrodynamics and Water Quality of Pit Lakes - A Hands-on Introduction to the Open Source Software PITLAKQ

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Motivation

Modelling pit lakes is a complex task. The recently open sourced software PITLAKQ (http://www.pitlakq.com/) allows to model hydrodynamic processes
in the a pit lake such as temperature stratification. Furthermore, transport of constituents and a variety of chemical and biological reactions can be modelled.

PITLAKQ is based on CE-QUAL-W2 (http://www.cee.pdx.edu/w2/) and PHREEQC
(http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/GWC_coupled) combining their abilities but also adds new features such as distributed groundwater exchange, treatment
of the lake water with chemicals and accounting for the impact of bank erosion
on the lake water quality.

Content

This workshops introduces PITLAKQ and provides a hand-ons tutorial in setting
up and running a model. It covers:

* Setting up a hydrodynamic model
* Generating model lake bathymetry
* Adding meteorological data as boundary condition
* Adding tributaries
* Running a hydrodynamic model
* Interpreting and presenting hydrodynamic results
* Setting up a water quality model
* Preprocessing initial and inflow concentrations
* Adding initial concentrations
* Adding concentrations to tributaries
* Running a water quality model
* Interpreting and presenting water quality results
* Varying the water quality processes

PITLAKQ solves complex problems and offers more than can be covered in one day. The trainer will be glad to answer questions that go beyond the content described above.

Target Audience

Participants should have modeling experience with CE-QUAL-W2, PHREEQC or comparable models. They also need to have basic knowledge of important pit lake processes.

Hard- and Software Requirements

Please bring a laptop with a Windows operating system. PITLAKQ also runs on Linux but the setup is currently still more complicated. You will receive a copy of the modeling software at the beginning of the workshop. If you have a question about this, please contact the Trainer (mmueller [at] hydrocomputing [dot] com).

The Trainer

The workshop is conducted by Dr. Mike Müller. He is the author of PITLAKQ and has used this software for variety of pit lakes. Mike Müller is CEO of hydrocomputing (http://www.hydrocomputing.com/) and has many years o modelling
experience with many hydrological and water quality models.

Registration

The workshop is fee of charge. You still need to register by email because seats are limited.