Subsurface sedimentary structure identification using deep learning: A review

C Zhan, Z Dai, Z Yang, X Zhang, Z Ma, HV Thanh… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The reliable identification of subsurface sedimentary structures (ie, geologic heterogeneity)
is critical in various earth and environmental sciences, petroleum reservoir engineering, and …

Data‐worth analysis for heterogeneous subsurface structure identification with a stochastic deep learning framework

C Zhan, Z Dai, MR Soltanian… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable characterization of subsurface structures is essential for earth sciences and related
applications. Data assimilation‐based identification frameworks can reasonably estimate …

Deep autoregressive neural networks for high‐dimensional inverse problems in groundwater contaminant source identification

S Mo, N Zabaras, X Shi, J Wu - Water Resources Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Identification of a groundwater contaminant source simultaneously with the hydraulic
conductivity in highly heterogeneous media often results in a high‐dimensional inverse …

Stage‐wise stochastic deep learning inversion framework for subsurface sedimentary structure identification

C Zhan, Z Dai, MR Soltanian… - Geophysical research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The stochastic models and deep‐learning models are the two most commonly used
methods for subsurface sedimentary structures identification. The results from the stochastic …

An integrated inversion framework for heterogeneous aquifer structure identification with single-sample generative adversarial network

C Zhan, Z Dai, J Samper, S Yin, R Ershadnia… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Generating reasonable heterogeneous aquifer structures is essential for understanding the
physicochemical processes controlling groundwater flow and solute transport better. The …

Integration of adversarial autoencoders with residual dense convolutional networks for estimation of non‐Gaussian hydraulic conductivities

S Mo, N Zabaras, X Shi, J Wu - Water Resources Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Inverse modeling for the estimation of non‐Gaussian hydraulic conductivity fields in
subsurface flow and solute transport models remains a challenging problem. This is mainly …

Solving inverse problems using conditional invertible neural networks

GA Padmanabha, N Zabaras - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Inverse modeling for computing a high-dimensional spatially-varying property field from
indirect sparse and noisy observations is a challenging problem. This is due to the complex …

An improved tandem neural network architecture for inverse modeling of multicomponent reactive transport in porous media

J Chen, Z Dai, Z Yang, Y Pan, X Zhang… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Parameter estimation for reactive transport models (RTMs) is important in improving their
predictive capacity for accurately simulating subsurface hydrogeochemical processes. This …

Variational autoencoder or generative adversarial networks? a comparison of two deep learning methods for flow and transport data assimilation

J Bao, L Li, A Davis - Mathematical Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
Groundwater modeling is an important tool for water resources management and aquifer
remediation. However, the inherent strong heterogeneity of the subsurface and scarcity of …

An integrated framework of deep learning and entropy theory for enhanced high-dimensional permeability field identification in heterogeneous aquifers

M Cao, Z Dai, J Chen, H Yin, X Zhang, J Wu, HV Thanh… - Water Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Accurately estimating high-dimensional permeability (k) fields through data assimilation is
critical for minimizing uncertainties in groundwater flow and solute transport simulations …