“…Several papers have been published concerning the application of the LBM to particular domains of interest. The shallow water°ow equations have been successfully modeled by Liu et al, 3 Th€ ommes et al, 4 Liu et al, 5 Linhao et al 6 and Rocca et al, 7 while coupling of shallow°ow with transport phenomena was investigated by Li and Huang, 8 Li and Huang, 9 Banda et al 10 and Peng et al 11 Free surface problems representing significant segments of river and coastal hydraulics (breaking dams, wave impact on o®shore structures, hydraulic jumps,°ood waves), including very demanding three-dimensional simulations of turbulent°ow, were investigated by Janßen and Krafczyk, 12 Attar and K€ orner 13 and Janssen and Krafczyk. 14 Furthermore, cases of discontinuous°ow have been explored by Zhou,15 while simulation of°ow in channel junctions À À À a very frequent phenomenon À À À is modeled by Liu et al 16 According to the trend by which the LBM is becoming an inevitable tool in solving demanding practical problems, application of the method on groundwater°o w-related problems is getting more attention.…”