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Titel: Uncertainty Quantification for Geothermal Basin- and Reservoir-Scale Applications
Autoren:
Denise Degen1, Mauro Cacace2, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth1,2, Karen Veroy1,3, Florian Wellmann1
Institutionen:
1RWTH Aachen University, Germany; 2GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany; 3Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands
Veranstaltung: GeoKarlsruhe 2021
Datum: 2021
DOI: 10.48380/dggv-gtb0-pv67
Zusammenfassung:
Numerical simulations of the governing geophysical processes are crucial for geothermal applications in order to characterize the subsurface. This characterization presents us with major challenges ranging from the correct physical and geometrical characterization to the quantification of uncertainties. Quantifying rock physics uncertainties and performing other probabilistic inverse methods is, even with current state-of-the-art finite element solver and high-performance infrastructures, computationally not feasible for complex basin- and reservoir-scale geothermal applications due to the large spatial, temporal, and parametric domain of the applications. Therefore, a common approach is to construct, for instance, models with a lower degree of resolution. The consequence of this is a significant loss of the information content of the model. Hence, with these models, we fail to improve the characterization of the subsurface, as we will demonstrate in this work. As an alternative, we propose to construct a surrogate model by using the reduced basis method. The reduced basis method constructs low-dimensional models while maintaining the input-output relationship. Hence, we do not restrict our physical domain. In this presentation, we demonstrate how this concept can be used for enabling a combined workflow of global sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification to improve our understanding and characterization of the subsurface.
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