Defining Disruptive Events

The final step in creating your contaminant transport model is to define the occurrence and consequence of any disruptive events that may impact your system.

GoldSim provides the ability to model the occurrence and consequences of discrete events. For example, you could simulate an event such as an earthquake which has the consequence of instantaneously changing the value of some parameters in the model (e.g., increasing the flow rate in a pathway) when the event occurs.

In addition to changing parameter values, the GoldSim Contaminant Transport Module allows you to use events and consequences to instantaneously move mass from one pathway (or Source) to another pathway, and/or to disrupt packages in a Source in response to an event such as an earthquake or an industrial accident.