Cellular automata simulation of saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifer. Issue 6 (1st November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chatziagorakis, Prodromos; Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch.
• Is Part Of: International journal of parallel, emergent and distributed systems. Volume 31:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 517
• Page End: 528
• Publication Date: 2016-11-01
• Subjects: Cellular automata -- modeling -- saltwater intrusion -- coastal aquifer; Parallel computers -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Computer algorithms -- Periodicals; 004.35
• DOI: 10.1080/17445760.2015.1077523
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-5760

Abstract

Abstract : The wasteful consumption of freshwater in heavily populated coastal areas usually consist the basic reason for the intrusion of saltwater into the coastal aquifers. In order to avoid such catastrophic scenarios, their prediction is of utter significance. Underground water systems are highly complex and the water flow is extremely dynamic, thus making the prediction of this phenomenon a difficult task. For this reason, a two dimensional Cellular Automaton (CA) was designed enabling both the qualitative and quantitative simulation and illustration of the saltwater intrusion into an unconfined coastal aquifer. The presented results ensure the robustness of the proposed CA model taking full advantage of its inherent parallelism and local connectivity.