Pollution transfer in groundwater using a multi-agents system

Modelling soluble pollutants in aquifers requires sufficient knowledge of hydrogeological processes as well as strong digital skills to use basic associated tools. These technical aspects often prevent from addressing the problem of groundwater pollution, for instance with students. In this paper, the basic necessary concepts to model the transfer of pollutants into an aquifer are summed up. The processes are then explicitly modelled with multi-agents techniques and implemented into the Netlogo open platform (Wilensky, 1999). The modelled processes are thus easy to use and to modify for educational activities but also for research with relatively simple digital experiments. © CNRS-UMR Géographie-cités 8504.