Optimization and Calibration of Subsurface Flow Models

This effort is supported by the Army Research Office. Other support has been from National Science Foundation ITR grant 0112542.

Objectives

The objectives of this project are

to design automatic calibration tools for ground and surface water models,
to simultaneously design optimization methods and subsurface flow and transport simulators for a variety of subsurface contaminant remediation problems
to implement the optimization-simulation combination in a way that exploits parallelism in both the optimization and simulation,
to apply the new algorithms to demonstration problems , and
to train a generation of students in this multidisciplinary setting.

People

North Carolina State University

PI: Tim Kelley (tim_kelley@ncsu.edu)
PhD Students
- Corey Winton (corey.winton@gmail.com)
- Jill Reese (jpreese@unity.ncsu.edu)
Alumni
- Dan Finkel
- Katie Fowler
- Chris Kees
Undergraduate RA
- Vincent Bannister

US Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Charlie Berger
Jackie Hallberg
Stacy Howington
Chris Kees

University of North Carolina

PI: Cass T. Miller
Postdoctoral Associate
- Matthew Farthing

Rice University

PI: John E. Dennis, Jr.

Products

Community Problems and Solutions

Publications

K. R. Fowler, C. T. Kelley, C. E. Kees, and C. T. Miller A Hydraulic Capture Application for Optimal Remeidation Design, Proceedings of Computational Methods in Water Resources XV, C. T. Miller, M. W. Farthing, W. G. Gray, and G. F. Pinter, eds, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2004, pp. 1140-1158.
A. S. Mayer, C. T. Kelley, and C. T. Miller,
Optimal Design for Problems Involving Flow and Transport Phenomena in Subsurface Systems
Advances in Water Resources, 12, 2002, pp 1233-1256.

CRSC Tech Reports

CRSC-TR04-30: An Adaptive Restart Implementation of DIRECT
D. E. Finkel and C. T. Kelley

CRSC-TR04-28: Convergence Analysis of the DIRECT Algorithm
D. E. Finkel and C. T. Kelley

CRSC-TR04-04: A Hydraulic Capture Application for Optimal Remeidation Design
K. R. Fowler, C. T. Kelley, C. E. Kees, and C. T. Miller

CRSC-TR03-08: Solution of a Well-Field Design Problem with Implicit Filtering,
K. R. Kavanagh, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, Mark S. C. Reed, C. E. Kees, Robert W. Darwin, February, 2003. to appear in Optimization and Engineering

CRSC-TR01-33: Optimal Design for Problems Involving Flow and Transport Phenomena in Subsurface Systems
A. S. Mayer, C. T. Kelley, and C. T. Miller, December, 2001

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Last modified: July 23, 2006