This paper describes Galerkin finite element (FEFLOW) models for the simulation of groundwater flow in twodimensional,
transient, unconfined groundwater flow systems. This study involves validation of FEFLOW model with reported
analytical solutions and also comparison of reported Explicit Finite Difference Model for groundwater flow simulation
(FDFLOW). The model is further used to obtain the space and time distribution of groundwater head for the reported
synthetic test case. The effect of time step size, space discretizations, pumping rates is analyzed on model results.