From fluid flow to coupled processes in fractured rock: Recent advances and new frontiers

HS Viswanathan, J Ajo‐Franklin… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative predictions of natural and induced phenomena in fractured rock is one of the
great challenges in the Earth and Energy Sciences with far‐reaching economic and …

A systematic review of data science and machine learning applications to the oil and gas industry

Z Tariq, MS Aljawad, A Hasan, M Murtaza… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Springer
This study offered a detailed review of data sciences and machine learning (ML) roles in
different petroleum engineering and geosciences segments such as petroleum exploration …

Learning to fail: Predicting fracture evolution in brittle material models using recurrent graph convolutional neural networks

M Schwarzer, B Rogan, Y Ruan, Z Song, DY Lee… - Computational Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a machine learning approach to address a key challenge in materials science:
predicting how fractures propagate in brittle materials under stress, and how these materials …

StressNet-Deep learning to predict stress with fracture propagation in brittle materials

Y Wang, D Oyen, W Guo, A Mehta, CB Scott… - Npj Materials …, 2021 - nature.com
Catastrophic failure in brittle materials is often due to the rapid growth and coalescence of
cracks aided by high internal stresses. Hence, accurate prediction of maximum internal …

Flow estimation solely from image data through persistent homology analysis

A Suzuki, M Miyazawa, JM Minto, T Tsuji, I Obayashi… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Topological data analysis is an emerging concept of data analysis for characterizing shapes.
A state-of-the-art tool in topological data analysis is persistent homology, which is expected …

Effects of Dead‐End Fractures on Non‐Fickian Transport in Three‐Dimensional Discrete Fracture Networks

S Yoon, JD Hyman, WS Han… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding mechanistic causes of non‐Fickian transport in fractured media is important
for many hydrogeologic processes and subsurface applications. This study elucidates the …

Modeling and scale-bridging using machine learning: Nanoconfinement effects in porous media

N Lubbers, A Agarwal, Y Chen, S Son, M Mehana… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Fine-scale models that represent first-principles physics are challenging to represent at
larger scales of interest in many application areas. In nanoporous media such as tight-shale …

An artificial intelligence-based model for performance prediction of acid fracturing in naturally fractured reservoirs

A Hassan, MS Aljawad, M Mahmoud - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Acid fracturing is one of the most effective techniques for improving the productivity of
naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs. Natural fractures (NFs) significantly affect the …

Reduced-order modeling through machine learning and graph-theoretic approaches for brittle fracture applications

A Hunter, BA Moore, M Mudunuru, V Chau… - Computational Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Typically, thousands of computationally expensive micro-scale simulations of brittle crack
propagation are needed to upscale lower length scale phenomena to the macro-continuum …

Characterizing fracture stress of defective graphene samples using shallow and deep artificial neural networks

MAN Dewapriya, R Rajapakse, WPS Dias - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Advanced machine learning methods could be useful to obtain novel insights into some
challenging nanomechanical problems. In this work, we employed artificial neural networks …