These files are for the hydraulic capture problem from K. R. Fowler, J. P. Reese, C. E. Kees, J. E. Dennis, C. T. Kelley, C. T. Miller, C. Audet, A. J. Booker, G. Couture, R. W. Darwin, M. W. Farthing, D. E. Finkel, J. M. Gablonsky, G. Gray, and T. G. Kolda A Comparison of Derivative-Free Optimization Methods for Groundwater Supply and Hydraulic Capture Problems, Advances in Water Resources, 31, 2008, 743-757. To get this to work you must 0) Get a copy of the implicit filtering book (SIAM 2011) to understand how this mess is assembled. The story is in Chapter 9. 1) Put the .m files and the DATA subdirectory in the same place. 2) Install Modflow 2000 http://water.usgs.gov/nrp/gwsoftware/modflow2000/modflow2000.html