Upscaling shear strength of heterogeneous oil sands with interbedded shales using artificial neural network

B Zhang, Z Ma, D Zheng, RJ Chalaturnyk, J Boisvert - SPE Journal, 2023 - onepetro.org
Understanding the shear strength of caprock shale and oil sands is important in risk
assessment of slope stability in open-pit mining, caprock integrity of in-situ thermal recovery …

Fast uncertainty quantification by sparse data learning from multiphysics systems

B Sun, Y Wang, H Feng, E Chung… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data learning is a burgeoning area; here, we refer to it as a gorgeous blend of scientific
computing and high-dimensional statistics. In this article, we propose a generalized …

Sensitivity analysis of injection parameters in steam assisted gravity drainage under geological uncertainty

L Monteiro, C Baptista-Pereira, L Azevedo - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is a challenging enhanced oil recovery technique
that requires proper parameterization in terms of well geometry and steam injection …

Sequentially coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical simulation for geomechanical assessments of caprock integrity in SAGD

B Zhang, R Chalaturnyk… - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Oil sand reservoirs and caprock undergo deformations triggered by pore pressure increases
and thermal induced stresses during the steam-assisted-gravity-drainage (SAGD) …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical upscaling of anisotropic failure criteria in heterogeneous reservoirs

B Zhang, N Deisman, R Chalaturnyk, J Boisvert - Engineering Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
With advances in characterizing the reservoir heterogeneities and modeling the complex
reservoir-geomechanical behavior using modern geological modeling software and …

Generalized polynomial chaos expansion for fast and accurate uncertainty quantification in geomechanical modelling

C Zoccarato, L Gazzola, M Ferronato, P Teatini - Algorithms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Geomechanical modelling of the processes associated to the exploitation of subsurface
resources, such as land subsidence or triggered/induced seismicity, is a common practice of …

Quantifying Uncertainty of In-Situ Horizontal Stress and Geotechnical Parameters Using a Bayesian Inference Approach for Pressuremeter Tests

D Zheng, B Zhang… - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Understanding in-situ horizontal stress is crucial for various applications in deep ground,
including oil drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and nuclear waste repository design. The …

Modelling temperature dynamics of the SAGD process in an oil reservoir by the discovery of parametric partial differential equations

K Raviprakash, A Ganesh, B Huang… - The Canadian Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many chemical and industrial processes are complex, and the dynamics of such processes
cannot be explained using a partial differential equation (PDE) or a system of PDEs with …

The Factor of Safety-Constrained Model Predictive Controller Design for Closed-Loop Reservoir Management

A Ganesh, R Chalaturnyk… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A closed-loop optimal control strategy is extensively used in all engineering disciplines to
achieve desired control while maximizing performance. Balancing the economics and safety …

Uncertainty quantification of in situ horizontal stress with pressuremeter using a statistical inverse analysis method

D Zheng, B Zhang… - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Knowledge of in situ stress magnitude and orientation plays a very important role in
geological/geotechnical engineering and in the development of energy resources, such as …