Abstract:In the numerical model of groundwater, it is often necessary to refine areas of some important areast. The model nesting technique only needs to modify the original model with little modification, and does not need to remeshing. Previous studies have tended to focus on the theory of cryptography, but lack of practical application in groundwater numerical simulation. Based on the analysis of hydrogeological conditions of the Baotu Spring area in Jinan city, a numerical model of groundwater flow is established by using the groundwater numerical simulation software GMS10.0. By using more flexible and efficient sharing nodes of local grid refinement (LGR) , the key areas of western Jinan city have been refined. Comparing with the results of refined and global refinement, it is showed that LGR improves the accuracy of water level simulation in the refined and unrefined areas. LGR reduced the average absolute error of simulated water level in refined and unrefined areas by 19% and 14%, respectively. Compared with the global refinement, the running time of LGR has been reduced by 92.27% before and after operation. The disk space is reduced by 78.63% and 93.80% respectively. LGR can greatly reduce the running time of the model and disk space occupancy, and improve the simulation precision of refinement area and unrefinement area. With the construction of projects of groundwater transformation into groundwater in Jinan city, LGR can be applied to portray the fault, artificial recharge river and recharge wells precisely and server for the community, engineering better.