Talk:SEEP2D

Notability

This article was marked for possible deletion due to lack of notability. I would argue that it is indeed notable for the following reasons:

1. There are lots of good quality articles that refer to the software. Using Google Scholar you can find 117 articles in several languages from all over the world. Most of these are engineering studies done of seepage analysis of dams and levees. This shows breadth. Many of these articles are of modern date indicating that the software is still used and is still relevant.
2. The software was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, leaders in dam and levee construction, and continues to be used by the Corps.
3. The software is free and open source, although the source is not available online (yet) but can be obtained on request from Aquaveo, LLC.
4. The software is still being used and distributed. Although it hasn't changed much lately there is recent discussion about further development to support transient data.

Unjedai (talk) 15:45, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Publications

I started to compile a list of publications referring to SEEP2D in order to combat the notability warning but there were too many. Using Google Scholar you can find 117 articles in several languages ranging from software reviews to engineering studies. Perhaps some more "notable" ones are:

• Tracy, F. (1983). User's Guide for a Plane and Axisymmetric Finite Element Program for Steady-State Seepage Problems. Instruction Report No. IR K-83-4, Vicksburg, MS, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.
• Noori, Bahzad MA, and Khaleel S. Ismaeel. "Evaluation of Seepage and Stability of Duhok Dam." (2011): 42-58.

"8. CONCLUSIONS
1. The finite element program (SEEP2D) can be used to analyze the homogeneous and
non-homogeneous (zoned) earth dams. Therefore, the program is applied on four
different sections of the Duhok zoned earth dam so as to determine the location of the
free surface seepage line, the quantity of seepage through the dam, the pore water
pressure distribution and the total head measurements. The results from this program
showed acceptable accuracy compared with the experimental results."

• Corcoran, Maureen K. et al, Initial Research into the Effects of Woody Vegetation on Levees Volume III of IV: Numerical Model Simulation, July 2011.

"SEEP2D is designed by the ERDC to compute seepage on profile models, 
such as a levee cross section. The model is internationally known in the 
engineering community as a model for complicated seepage analysis of 
dams and levees (Baker 2003; Guardo and Rohrer 2000; Zee and Zee 
2006). The SEEP2D model developer conducted the seepage analyses 
described in this report."

Note that the article above is published by the same organization that created the software.

• Zee C-H., and Zee R., 2006: Earthquake Hydrodynamic Pressure on Dams. J. Hydr. Engrg., 132(11), 1128-1133.
• Ozkan, Senda. Analytical study on flood induced seepage under river levees. Diss. Louisiana State University, 2003.

Unjedai (talk) 15:45, 10 July 2013 (UTC)