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 …

Carbon mineralization in fractured mafic and ultramafic rocks: A review

H Nisbet, G Buscarnera, JW Carey… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral carbon storage in mafic and ultramafic rock masses has the potential to be an
effective and permanent mechanism to reduce anthropogenic CO2. Several successful pilot …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dependence of connectivity dominance on fracture permeability and influence of topological centrality on the flow capacity of fractured porous media

C Wang, X Liu, E Wang, M Wang, C Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence of fracture permeability and fracture network connectivity on the equivalent
permeability tensor of the fractured rock mass is investigated and compared. 70 discrete …

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 …