using results

Hi,
I am simulating a 3D river problem and I have pumping wells next to the river. To start I imposed my BC in the river and at the boundaries of the model. Before I start the pumping I want to run the model in steady state to spread the hydraulic heads across the whole model. After that I will create my pumping wells and I want to run the model in transient state. My question is: How can I use the previous results of the steady state as starting input parameters in the transient state?
I thought of running the model in steady state and extracting the results in a dat file, then I re-open the model (same BC) and I create a map of the hydraulic head results and link these results to "process variables, fluid flow, hydraulic heads" and then I run the simulation in transient state.
Is it a convenient way to tackle the problem or does Feflow re-impose these hydraulic head values at each simulation step?
Thank you
Sam

Hi Sam,
After the steady-state simulation finishes, simply click on the save (or save as) button. The saved model will contain the steady-state heads.
Cheers,
Carlos

Another option is to export the resulting heads to a dat file, then use that exported data to set the hydraulic head distribution for the transient. If you save the fem, be sure to give it a different name or you will overwrite your steady state fem.

Pete