Appropriate modeling approaches to quantify gas migration in low-permeability porous media can assist appraisal of sealing efficiency of caprocks, with key applications in sustainable use of underground energy resources. A variety of models depicting gas movement across low-permeability geomaterials are available (Wu et al., 2016; Sun et al., 2017, Rani et al., 2018). Some of these models...
Computational models can predict and improve our understanding of multiphase flow in porous media. In this field, the task of uncertainty quantification is of paramount importance when developing and evaluating mathematical models aimed at the design and prediction of complex processes such as enhanced oil recovery techniques. One promising Enhanced-Oil-Recovery technique is the injection of...
Reduced-order models (ROMs) can be used in place of a high-fidelity model (HFM) to alleviate the computational cost associated with HFM simulations. Emulators or surrogates are a class of ROMs whose aim is to reduce the complexity of a given HFM by learning the dynamics of the state variables directly from the model’s output, i.e. they are trained on a dataset generated by running the HFM...
Data-driven approaches, among them machine learning tools, have garnered increasing interest in porous media research and offer alternatives to traditional numerical methods to improve the predictive modeling based on observation data. Recently, the idea of incorporating prior physical principles within measurements to better rely on experimental data has been successfully immersed into...
The reservoir rock in subsurface applications such as geothermal or hydrocarbon reservoirs, geological carbon sequestration or nuclear waste deposition is often fractured. When fractures are present, they can potentially dominate flow and transport in those applications. It is therefore necessary to characterize the relevant fracture parameters, particularly the fracture apertures, as good as...
Identifying the final fate of treated wastewater is sometimes a challenging task because not always receiving surface water bodies are available in the neighboring. Consequently, the water treatment agencies often resort to infiltration pond facilities for discharging effluents from the treatment plant. This technical solution is considered extremely favorable because it recharges the...
The generalized physics-based scaling curve method proposed by Patzek et al. (2013) is an excellent alternative to the decline curve methods that forecast gas production from shale reservoirs. However, it still neglects the multiphase flow effects and may lead to unreliable hydrocarbon production prediction from mudrock reservoirs. In this study, we perform a global sensitivity analysis using...
