ZBSoft: Companion Software for
Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling: Theory and Practice

Introduction

ZBSoft is a collection of groundwater modeling and utility programs for distribution with the companion disks for Applied Contaminant Transport Modeling: Theory and Practice (Zheng and Bennett, 1995). The software is intended to help readers explore the modeling concepts and techniques discussed in the text and gain hands-on experience in transport simulation. This version of ZBSoft contains:

• ZBFLOW, a special educational version of MODFLOW (McDonald and Harbaugh, 1988), for flow simulation;
• ZBPATH, a special educational version of PATH3D (Zheng, 1989), for particle tracking analysis, using the flow solution of ZBFLOW;
• ZBTRAN, a special educational version of MT3D (Zheng, 1990; 1992), for solute transport simulation, using the flow solution of ZBFLOW;
• ZBIME, a special educational version of ModIME (SSP&A, 1995), as an integrated modeling environment for ZBFLOW, ZBPATH and ZBTRAN;
• ATrans, a general analytical solution for one-, two- and three-dimensional transport from a patch source in a uniform flow field (Neville, 1994);
• INTERP, a program for two-dimensional interpolation of randomly spaced data to a regular or irregular finite-difference grid using kriging or inverse distance algorithm.
• PM, an unformatted file reader for postprocessing the simulation results of ZBFLOW and ZBTRAN.

Installing ZBSoft

1. Go to the subdirectory with the downloaded zip file named zbsoft.zip;
   
2. Uncompress the zip file using PKUNZIP;
   
3. At the DOS command, enter the command
   
   install
   
   and then simply follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
   
4. View the README file and print out the user's guide.
   

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