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Copyright 2010 by William A. Kitch. Program may be freely distributed for educational purposes.
Setup
If you opend this file and received an error message about circular references, you need to set spr
To do this click on the office button in the upper left corner of the Excel window.
Then click "Excel Options" at the bottom of the tab
Then select the "Formulas" tab
Under the "Workbook Calculation" heading click the "Manual Calculation" radio button
Check the "Enable Iterative Calculation" box
Set the maximum number of iterations to 32766
Set the maximum change to 0.001
Computations Tab
All the calcuations are done on the computations tab
<- Blue cells are equipotential boundaried
<-Orange cells are flow boundaries
<-White cells are non-boudary cells
<-Cell to enter upstream and downstream head
The top matrix on the tab is the flow problem and the value in the cells represents the potental or to
The lower matrix on the tab is the conjugate problem and the values in the cells represent flow fun
To run the computation enter a value for the upstream an downstream head in the cells indicated
Then hit F9 to start the computations. This problem is large and takes about 2 minutes to run.
The problem should converge in less than 10 seconds
Plots Tabs
The Equipotential Line Plot tab is a contour plot of the potential fucntion and the contour lines repre
The Flowline Plot tab is a contour plot of the flow function and the contour lines represent flow lines
The Uplift Pressure tab is a plot of pressure head and pore water pressure on bottom of dam
References
For more info including all the finite difference equations see Appendix A
Coduto, Yeung, & Kitch (2011)
To perform calculations, enter the upstream head value in the red cells and hit F9
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