Sensitivity Analysis in the Presence of Intrinsic Stochasticity for Discrete Fracture Network Simulations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04722v2
• Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 19:21:54 GMT
• Title: Sensitivity Analysis in the Presence of Intrinsic Stochasticity for Discrete Fracture Network Simulations
• Authors: Alexander C. Murph, Justin D. Strait, Kelly R. Moran, Jeffrey D. Hyman, Hari S. Viswanathan, and Philip H. Stauffer
• Abstract summary: Large-scale discrete fracture network (DFN) simulators are standard fare for studies involving the sub-surface transport of particles. Estimates on quantities of interest (QoI) - such as breakthrough time of particles reaching the edge of the system - suffer from a two types of uncertainty. In this paper, we perform a Sensitivity Analysis, which directly attributes the uncertainty observed in the QoI to the uncertainty from each input parameter and to the aleatoric uncertainty.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large-scale discrete fracture network (DFN) simulators are standard fare for studies involving the sub-surface transport of particles since direct observation of real world underground fracture networks is generally infeasible. While these simulators have seen numerous successes over several engineering applications, estimations on quantities of interest (QoI) - such as breakthrough time of particles reaching the edge of the system - suffer from a two distinct types of uncertainty. A run of a DFN simulator requires several parameter values to be set that dictate the placement and size of fractures, the density of fractures, and the overall permeability of the system; uncertainty on the proper parameter choices will lead to some amount of uncertainty in the QoI, called epistemic uncertainty. Furthermore, since DFN simulators rely on stochastic processes to place fractures and govern flow, understanding how this randomness affects the QoI requires several runs of the simulator at distinct random seeds. The uncertainty in the QoI attributed to different realizations (i.e. different seeds) of the same random process leads to a second type of uncertainty, called aleatoric uncertainty. In this paper, we perform a Sensitivity Analysis, which directly attributes the uncertainty observed in the QoI to the epistemic uncertainty from each input parameter and to the aleatoric uncertainty. We make several design choices to handle an observed heteroskedasticity in DFN simulators, where the aleatoric uncertainty changes for different inputs, since the quality makes several standard statistical methods inadmissible. Beyond the specific takeaways on which input variables affect uncertainty the most for DFN simulators, a major contribution of this paper is the introduction of a statistically rigorous workflow for characterizing the uncertainty in DFN flow simulations that exhibit heteroskedasticity.

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