Leveraging machine learning in porous media

M Delpisheh, B Ebrahimpour, A Fattahi… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and, more particularly, machine learning (ML),
has had a significant impact on engineering and the fundamental sciences, resulting in …

Data-driven methods for flow and transport in porous media: a review

G Yang, R Xu, Y Tian, S Guo, J Wu, X Chu - International Journal of Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review focuses on recent advancements in data-driven methods for analyzing flow and
transport in porous media, which are showing promising potential for applications in energy …

Coupled pressure-driven flow and spontaneous imbibition in shale oil reservoirs

X Wang, S Wang, W Wu, Y Liang, F Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Coupled pressure-driven (viscous) flow and spontaneous imbibition are the main regimes
during shale oil production. Revealing the unclear mechanisms of this coupled flow is a …

CO2 diffusion in shale oil based on molecular simulation and pore network model

Q Feng, X Xing, S Wang, G Liu, Y Qin, J Zhang - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Field practices show that CO 2 huff and puff can effectively promote the exploitation of shale
resources, and CO 2 diffusion is noteworthy as a crucial mechanism of enhanced oil …

Reconstructing microstructures from statistical descriptors using neural cellular automata

P Seibert, A Raßloff, Y Zhang, K Kalina, P Reck… - Integrating Materials and …, 2024 - Springer
The problem of generating microstructures of complex materials in silico has been
approached from various directions including simulation, Markov, deep learning and …

Perspectives of machine learning development on Kerogen molecular model reconstruction and shale oil/gas exploitation

D Kang, J Ma, YP Zhao - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
The shale revolution has provided abundant shale oil/gas resources for the world, but the
efficient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly exploitation of shale oil/gas is still …

Generation mechanism and influencing factors of fracture networks during alternate fracturing in horizontal wells

W Wang, G Zhang, H Cao, L Chen, C Zhao - Theoretical and Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing is an effective means to increase natural gas production, and alternating
fracturing is a special fracturing method. Compared with sequential fracturing, alternating …

SA-VAE: a novel approach for reservoir characterization based on variational auto-encoder and selective attention mechanism

D Chen, Q Chen, Z Cui, R Wang, G Liu - Earth Science Informatics, 2023 - Springer
Reservoir characterization is one of the main engineering components to ensure the
optimum exploration and development of oil and gas. Deep-learning-based approaches are …

How to achieve the fast computation for voxel-based irregular structures by few finite elements?

HL Zhang, H Yu, Q Wang, WL Xu, MC Huang… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose machine learning (ML) based smart interpolation functions to enhance the finite
element computation (named as smart-I finite element) for the heterogeneous structures (eg …

A deep learning based surrogate model for reservoir dynamic performance prediction

S Wang, J Xiang, X Wang, Q Feng, Y Yang… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting the reservoir dynamic performance is an important basis for exploiting the
remaining oil and improving the recovery. Traditional prediction techniques primarily include …