Data-Driven Closure Parametrizations with Metrics: Dispersive Transport

Abstract

This work presents a data-driven framework for multi-scale parametrization of velocity-dependent dispersive transport in porous media. Pore-scale flow and transport simulations are conducted on periodic pore geometries, and volume averaging is used to isolate dispersive transport, producing parameters for the dispersive closure term at the representative elementary volume scale. After validation on unit cells with symmetric and asymmetric geometries, a convolutional neural network is trained to predict dispersivity directly from pore geometry images. Descriptive metrics are also introduced to better understand the parameter space and are used to build a neural network that predicts dispersivity based solely on these metrics. While the models predict longitudinal dispersivity well, transversal dispersivity remains difficult to capture, likely requiring more advanced models to fully describe pore-scale transversal dynamics.