Where Quick Tutorials teach individual techniques and Platform Concepts explain platform behaviors, Case Studies show what happens when you put everything together at a real site. These are narrative walkthroughs of real modeling problems, with site context, model-design choices, calibration against observations, and validation against field observations.
Each case study cross-references:
- The quick tutorials that teach each isolated technique used
- The platform concepts that explain gotchas encountered
- The Beginner's Manual sections that cover foundational material
- The reference pages for each button invoked
Mancelona, Michigan · Contamination Site
Massive TCE Plume Migration
End-to-end simulation of one of the largest groundwater contamination plumes in the United States, originating from 1940s–50s solvent disposal. Covers regional-to-local nested modeling, calibration against Static Water Levels, contaminant transport, purge-well remediation design, and vertical plume structure with sublayers.
Regional → Local Nesting
SWL Calibration
Continuous Source
Purge Well
Sublayers
Niles, Michigan · Coupled Lake-Aquifer System
Fully-Coupled Lake-Aquifer Model
Coupled surface water-groundwater model of a small Michigan lake with 3D T-PROGS geology, watershed / overland flow solver, shapefile-imported transient boundary conditions from 11 private monitoring wells, and a pumping augmentation well. Demonstrates features not covered end-to-end by any single quick tutorial.
Two-way Lake Coupling
T-PROGS 3D Geology
Watershed Solver
Shapefile BCs
Transient
How case studies differ from other pillars
The four existing documentation pillars each answer a different question. Case studies are the fifth, and they answer "what does a real model look like?":
- Beginner's Manual — "What is the platform?" Authoritative pedagogical reference, textbook-style.
- Quick Tutorials — "How do I do X?" Step-by-step procedures for individual tasks.
- Platform Concepts — "Why does the platform behave this way?" Gotchas and semantic rules.
- Reference Pages — "What does this button do?" Button-level documentation.
- Case Studies (you are here) — "What does a real model look like end-to-end?" Narrative walkthroughs of actual site problems.