MT3D-USGS
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Plans and prices
From MT3D-USGS's own pricing page, checked 14 Nov 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| MT3D-USGS | Free | No fee or cost stated; use, copy, modify, or distribute subject to USGS User's Rights Notice |
The facts
Each one read from MT3D-USGS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Availability
- The Nevada Water Science Center software listing says the software may be used, copied, modified, or distributed without fee or cost, subject to the USGS User's Rights Notice.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Chemical reactions
- Chemical reaction options include interspecies reactions and parent-daughter chain reactions.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Contact
- The page lists the USGS MODFLOW Team email as [email protected].checked 14 Nov 2026
- Current release
- The page identifies version 1.1.0 dated June 28, 2019 as the current release.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Documentation
- The initial report describes the theory and use of MT3D-USGS.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Downloads and documentation
- The release page links to release notes, a summary, installation instructions, and program files, source code, user guides, and examples.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Dry cells
- It can route solute through dry cells that may occur in the MODFLOW-NWT Newton-Raphson formulation.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Mass storage
- Its transient mass-storage formulation is intended to improve mass conservation and agreement with analytical benchmarks.checked 14 Nov 2026
- MODFLOW 6
- It supports transport simulation using a MODFLOW 6 flow solution on structured grids only.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Pump-and-treat recirculation
- A package simulates dynamic recirculation with or without treatment for combinations of wells represented in the flow model.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- MT3D-USGS is a groundwater solute transport simulator for MODFLOW.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Streams and lakes
- It simulates transport in streams and lakes, including solute exchange with connected groundwater.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Support boundary
- USGS states it cannot assist with MT3DMS questions or support because MT3DMS is not a USGS product.checked 14 Nov 2026
- Unsaturated-zone transport
- The simulator includes unsaturated-zone transport capabilities.checked 14 Nov 2026