Journal
COMPUTATIONAL GEOSCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 895-910Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-019-09847-2
Keywords
Machine learning; Data-driven discovery; Governing equations; Noisy data; LASSO
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1663208, 51520105005]
- National Science and Technology Major Project of China [2017ZX05009-005, 2016ZX05037-003]
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Governing equations of physical problems are traditionally derived from conservation laws or physical principles. However, some complex problems still exist for which these first-principle derivations cannot be implemented. As data acquisition and storage ability have increased, data-driven methods have attracted great attention. In recent years, several works have addressed how to learn dynamical systems and partial differential equations using data-driven methods. Along this line, in this work, we investigate how to discover subsurface flow equations from data via a machine learning technique, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO). The learning of single-phase groundwater flow equation and contaminant transport equation are demonstrated. Considering that the parameters of subsurface formation are usually heterogeneous, we propose a procedure for learning partial differential equations with heterogeneous model parameters for the first time. Derivative calculation from discrete data is required for implementing equation learning, and we discuss how to calculate derivatives from noisy data. For a series of cases, the proposed data-driven method demonstrates satisfactory results for learning subsurface flow equations.
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