Modular Groundwater Optimizer

Modular Groundwater Optimizer
(Educational Release)

Introduction

Modular Groundwater Optimizer (MGO) is a general simulation-optimization code incorporating MODFLOW and MT3DMS for groundwater resource and quality management. MGO is developed by Chunmiao Zheng and Patrick Wang at the University of Alabama in cooperation with Groundwater Systems Research Ltd. This release of MGO is intended for readers of Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling for educational purposes. It includes only genetic algorithms, one of the several available optimization solvers in MGO, and is restricted to the maximum of 20 decision variables.

Download and Installation

Download the following self-extracting file and save it to a temporary directory on your hard drive.

mgoedu.exe (3 MB): user's manual, release notes,
executable code, and example files

To install MGOEDU to the hard drive, click on the self-extracting zip file. Accept the default directory (folder) 'c:\zbsoft2\mgoedu' or specify a different name to continue. The following subdirectories will be created after mgoedu.exe is unzipped:

	bin: executable compiled to run in the command prompt mode under various versions of Microsoft Windows
	doc: MGO documentation and user's manual
	ex1: first example
	ex2: second example
	ex3: third example

Graphical User Interface

Groundwater Vista (student version) provides limited support to MGO.
Click here to download brief notes on using MGO with Groundwater Vista
and two example files.