Watershed & Flood Kit for a sediment plume
Built for hobbyists & makers exploring it for fun. Play with real physics and math, no license and no setup — just open and tinker. Simulate a sediment plume live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.
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Pumping a well lowers the water table into a cone of depression. Under the Thiem steady-state solution the drawdown is s(r) = Q/(2πT)·ln(R/r): more pumping deepens the cone, higher transmissivity flattens it. Fundamental to well design, water supply, and contaminant capture.
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Governing equation
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Given scattered measurements — rainfall gauges, soil samples, air-quality sensors — inverse-distance weighting estimates values everywhere in between. Each sample's influence falls off with distance raised to a power: a low power gives smooth, blended surfaces; a high power makes each sample dominate its neighborhood in sharp bull's-eyes. The workhorse of GIS mapping.
Data Inspector
Governing equation
Runs locally in your browser — free forever. Scale to the cloud when reality gets heavy.
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- Is this good for hobbyists & makers?
- Yes — this version of "Watershed & Flood Kit for a sediment plume" is framed for hobbyists & makers exploring it for fun. Play with real physics and math, no license and no setup — just open and tinker.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. It runs in any modern browser, free, with no account required.