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In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have experienced an increasing interest in their ability to perform a fast approximation of effective hydrodynamic parameters in porous media research and applications. This paper…
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are utilized to encode the relation between initial configurations of obstacles and three fundamental quantities in porous media: porosity ($\varphi$), permeability $k$, and tortuosity ($T$). The…
Simulation of fluid flow in porous media has many applications, from the micro-scale (cell membranes, filters, rocks) to macro-scale (groundwater, hydrocarbon reservoirs, and geothermal) and beyond. Direct simulation of flow in porous media…
Permeability is a central concept in the macroscopic description of flow through porous media, with applications spanning from oil recovery to hydrology. Traditional methods for determining the permeability tensor involving flow simulations…
Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are well-suited to model the nonlinear relationship between the microscale geometry of porous media and the corresponding flow distribution, thereby accurately and efficiently coupling the flow behavior at…
We report the application of machine learning methods for predicting the effective diffusivity (De) of two-dimensional porous media from images of their structures. Pore structures are built using reconstruction methods and represented as…
Fast prediction of permeability directly from images enabled by image recognition neural networks is a novel pore-scale modeling method that has a great potential. This article presents a framework that includes (1) generation of porous…
Porous media is widely distributed in nature, found in environments such as soil, rock formations, and plant tissues, and is crucial in applications like subsurface oil and gas extraction, medical drug delivery, and filtration systems.…
Accurate prediction of permeability tensors from pore-scale microstructure images is essential for subsurface flow modeling, yet direct numerical simulation requires hours per sample, fundamentally limiting large-scale uncertainty…
Permeability characterizes the capacity of porous formations to conduct fluids, thereby governing the performance of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), hydrocarbon extraction, and subsurface energy storage. A reliable…
Accurate simulation of fluid flow in porous media is challenging due to complex pore-space geometries and the computational cost of solving the Navier-Stokes equations. This difficulty is particularly important when repeated simulations are…
We adopt convolutional neural networks (CNN) to predict the basic properties of the porous media. Two different media types are considered: one mimics the sand packings, and the other mimics the systems derived from the extracellular space…
Turbulent flow over permeable interface is omnipresent featuring complex flow topology. In this work, a data driven, end to end machine learning model has been developed to model the turbulent flow in porous media. For the same, we have…
A model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed to reconstruct the three-dimensional turbulent flows beneath a free surface using surface measurements, including the surface elevation and surface velocity. Trained on…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been applied to predict or model fluid dynamics. However, mechanisms of CNNs for learning fluid dynamics are still not well understood, while such understanding is highly necessary to…
Reactive flows in porous media play an important role in our life and are crucial for many industrial, environmental and biomedical applications. Very often the concentration of the species at the inlet is known, and the so-called…
In the past several years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven their capability to predict characteristic quantities in porous media research directly from pore-space geometries. Due to the frequently observed significant…
Most of the two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic/hydrodynamic models are still computationally too demanding for real-time applications. In this paper, an innovative modelling approach based on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) method is…
The dynamics of droplet collisions in microchannels are inherently complex, governed by multiple interdependent physical and geometric factors. Understanding and predicting the outcomes of these collisions-whether coalescence, reverse-back,…
A physics-informed convolutional neural network is proposed to simulate two phase flow in porous media with time-varying well controls. While most of PICNNs in existing literatures worked on parameter-to-state mapping, our proposed network…