Uncertainty quantification of coal seam gas production prediction using Polynomial Chaos

Autor: Diane Donovan, Stephen Tyson, Bevan Thompson, Fengde Zhou, Brodie A. J. Lawson, Suzanne Hurter, Thomas A. McCourt
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 157:1148-1159
ISSN: 0920-4105
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2017.08.012
Popis: A surrogate model approximates a computationally expensive solver. Polynomial Chaos is a method used to construct surrogate models by summing combinations of carefully chosen polynomials. The polynomials are chosen to respect the probability distributions of the uncertain input variables (parameters); this allows for both uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis. In this paper we apply these techniques to a commercial solver for the estimation of peak gas rate and cumulative gas extraction from a coal seam gas well. The polynomial expansion is shown to honour the underlying geophysics with low error when compared to a much more complex and computationally slower commercial solver. We make use of advanced numerical integration techniques to achieve this accuracy using relatively small amounts of training data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE