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NESC1144 FEMWATER BLT.
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NESC1144 FEMWATER BLT.

FEMWATER BLT, Water or Waste Transport in Soil

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM:  FEMWATER BLT.
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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name Package id Status Status date
FEMWATER,BLT NESC1144/01 Tested 25-OCT-1993

Machines used:

Package ID Orig. computer Test computer
NESC1144/01 IBM PC PC-80486
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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

FEMWATER,BLT is used to model release and transport of contaminants from wastes stored in metallic containers in saturated or unsaturated soil systems including low- level waste disposal sites. Both programs provide two-dimensional, time-dependent, finite-element analyses. FEMWATER calculates water velocity, moisture content, and pressure head in unsaturated/ saturated porous media. BLT, a modification of the FEMWATER code, predicts container degradation, waste form leaching, and radionuclide migration in unsaturated porous media.
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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

FEMWATER and BLT perform two-dimensional time-  dependent analyses using the finite element method. Nonlinearities in the unsaturated flow equations are handled through Picard iteration. The transport equations in BLT are linear, and Gaussian elimination is used to solve the matrix equations.
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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

Maxima of -
   528 finite elements (FEMWATER)
   595 nodal points (FEMWATER)
   225 finite elements (BLT)
   252 nodal points (BLT)
   100 waste-containing elements
    20 different waste types
These limits may be changed by redimensioning the appropriate arrays.
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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

Execution time for FEMWATER varies depending  on the number of iterations required to converge the solution. For a typical problem with approximately 500 nodal points, execution time  to calculate the steady-state flow pattern is about 20 CPU minutes on an IBM PC/AT with a coprocessor. For 225 nodal points, BLT execution time is typically about 1.3 CPU minutes per time step. NESC executed the FEMWATER sample problem in approximately 7.5 CPU minutes and the BLT sample problem in approximately 37 CPU minutes on an IBM PS/2 model 70 with a coprocessor.
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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:
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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

FEMWATER,BLT is a modified version  of the FEMWATER1,FEMWASTE1 (NESC9902) package developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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9. STATUS
Package ID Status date Status
NESC1144/01 25-OCT-1993 Tested at NEADB
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10. REFERENCES:
NESC1144/01, included references:
- T.M. Sullivan and C.J. Suen:
  Low-Level Waste Shallow Land Disposal Source Term Model - Data
  Input Guides
  NUREG/CR-5387 BNL-NUREG-52206 (July 1989).
- L. Reed:
  FEMWATER,BLT Flexible Disk Cartridge Descriptions and
  Implementation Information
  NESC Note 91-84 (June 28, 1991).
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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

The minimum hardware configuration is an IBM  PC or compatible with 650 Kbytes of memory. A fixed disk drive of at least 10 Mbytes, a 1.2 Mbyte flexible disk drive, and a math coprocessor are recommended.
NESC1144/01
The program was compiled and the test cases executed by NEA-DB on a DELL 486P/33MHz compatible PC.
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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED
Package ID Computer language
NESC1144/01 FORTRAN-77
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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED:  MS-DOS 3.1,
PC-DOS 4.0.
NESC1144/01
The program was compiled using the Lahey F77L3-EM32 Version 4.02 Fortran-77 compiler and linked with the Lahey LINK-EM/32 Version 2.06 linker in connection with the Lahey/Ergo OS/386 DOS Extender Version 4.02. The PC ran under MS-DOS 5.0.
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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

The
executable files supplied were created using Microsoft FORTRAN 5.0.
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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

       T. M. Sullivan and C. J. Suen
       Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A.
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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE
NESC1144/01
File name File description Records
NESC1144_01.001 FEMBLT.INF Information file 97
NESC1144_01.002 READ.ME Original read me file 24
NESC1144_01.003 FMWTR5_1.FOR Source Fortran file 1133
NESC1144_01.004 FMWTR5_2.FOR Source Fortran file 1096
NESC1144_01.005 FMWTR5_3.FOR Source Fortran file 1049
NESC1144_01.006 FMWTR5_4.FOR Source Fortran file 1108
NESC1144_01.007 FMWTR5_6.EXE FEMWATER executable file 0
NESC1144_01.008 MAKEFILE.FEM Makefile file 17
NESC1144_01.009 CREAEXE1.BAT Auxiliary file 4
NESC1144_01.010 INPUT Input file 148
NESC1144_01.011 OUTPUT Output file 1730
NESC1144_01.012 OUT_AUX Auxiliary Output file 1196
NESC1144_01.013 BLT1.FOR Source Fortran file 1178
NESC1144_01.014 BLT2.FOR Source Fortran file 1133
NESC1144_01.015 BLT3.FOR Source Fortran file 1731
NESC1144_01.016 BLT4.FOR Source Fortran file 1737
NESC1144_01.017 GETTIM.FOR Source Fortran file 10
NESC1144_01.018 BLT.EXE BLT executable file 0
NESC1144_01.019 MAKEFILE.BLT Makefile file 17
NESC1144_01.020 CREAEXE2.BAT Auxiliary file 4
NESC1144_01.021 BLTTEST.DAT Input file 66
NESC1144_01.022 AUX_IN.DAT Auxiliary input file 596
NESC1144_01.023 BLTNEA.OUT Output file 2023
NESC1144_01.024 RESTART.OUT Output file 1853
NESC1144_01.025 TRACECON.DAT Output file 300
NESC1144_01.026 LEACHMS.DAT Output file 1000
NESC1144_01.027 LEACHRL.DAT Output file 1000
NESC1144_01.028 TIMEOUT.DAT Output file 101
NESC1144_01.029 README.DAT Original read me file 19
NESC1144_01.030 REDIMGRD.FOR Source Fortran file 308
NESC1144_01.031 REDIMGRD.EXE REDIMGRD executable file 0
NESC1144_01.032 MAKEFILE.RED Makefile file 17
NESC1144_01.033 CREAEXE3.BAT Auxiliary file 4
NESC1144_01.034 AUX_IN.DAT Input file 596
NESC1144_01.035 AUX_NEA.OUT Output file 62
NESC1144_01.036 WTRNEWBD.DAT Auxiliary output file 15
NESC1144_01.037 DOS file-names 36
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17. CATEGORIES
  • R. Environmental and Earth Sciences

Keywords: finite element method, ground water, hydraulics, porous materials, radioactive waste storage, radionuclide migration.