Machine Learning Methods for Understanding Coupled Processes and Material Properties in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Session ID#: 120978

Session Description:
Machine learning (ML) methods have provided means to enhance our understanding of subsurface applications including environmental subsurface flow and transport, oil and gas, carbon sequestration, geothermal, waste disposal, and nuclear nonproliferation. Due to the heterogeneous nature of the subsurface, physics-based models must account for a wide range of spatial and temporal scales to predict any quantities of interest., therefore, such models are computationally expensive. The ability of ML to accelerate physics-based models has enabled improvements in parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, multi-scale modeling, and performance assessment. In addition, ML techniques have been successful in extracting critical features from noisy data sets making it possible to better interpret field observations. This session invites outstanding works in numerical modeling of coupled processes and extraction of material properties in heterogeneous porous media combined with ML techniques. We strongly encourage works utilizing experimental, field, and simulation data combined with ML to investigate subsurface systems.
Index Terms:

1805 Computational hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
3225 Numerical approximations and analysis [MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5139 Transport properties [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]


Primary Convener:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and tartakovsky, Alexandre
Conveners:  Hari Selvi Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Hongkyu Yoon, Sandia National Laboratories, Department of Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States and tartakovsky, Alexandre
Primary Liaison:  Pania Newell, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and tartakovsky, Alexandre
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