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Multiscale finite element methods for stochastic porous media flow equations and application to uncertainty quantification

โœ Scribed by P. Dostert; Y. Efendiev; T.Y. Hou


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
768 KB
Volume
197
Category
Article
ISSN
0045-7825

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โœฆ Synopsis


In this paper, we study multiscale finite element methods for stochastic porous media flow equations as well as applications to uncertainty quantification. We assume that the permeability field (the diffusion coefficient) is stochastic and can be described in a finite dimensional stochastic space. This is common in applications where the coefficients are expanded using chaos approximations. The proposed multiscale method constructs multiscale basis functions corresponding to sparse realizations, and these basis functions are used to approximate the solution on the coarse-grid for any realization. Furthermore, we apply our coarse-scale model to uncertainty quantification problem where the goal is to sample the porous media properties given an integrated response such as production data. Our algorithm employs pre-computed posterior response surface obtained via the proposed coarse-scale model. Using fast analytical computations of the gradients of this posterior, we propose approximate Langevin samples. These samples are further screened through the coarse-scale simulation and, finally, used as a proposal in Metropolis-Hasting Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Numerical results are presented which demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.


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