Spencer Malott

I am running a 2D vertical transient coastal aquifer model. I want to track the fluid influx/efflux accross the sediment-Lake boundary. Currently I have a series of nodes selected across the model boundaries in which I want to monitor the flow across over time. The exported rate budget data gives a value for every singe node for every time step making the data super hard to process. Is there any way to get the total flux/flow across the entire boundary for a given time step instead of having to integrate across all of the nodes? In addition, I've noticed that the rate budget data does not include the imbalance, which I also want. Is there any way to export the imbalance data also?

Thanks,

Spencer

I'm a little unclear what you're asking but if I understand correctly you want to extract point measurements for hydraulic head like you would get from a piezometer. If you have assigned the location of your piezometer screen as a supermesh point when you constructed or as an observation point its easy. With the hydraulic head selection activated in the process variable tab, click on the node you are interested in. Then right click on Hydraulic Head and export data. This is good if you're running in transient mode. If you're in steady state just use the inspector tool to look at the node location you're interested in.