A framework for the upscaling of the electrical conductivity in the quasi-static Maxwell's equations

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2016.11.051MaRDI QIDQ508013zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. J. Heagy, Luz Angélica Caudillo-Mata, Eldad Haber, Christoph Schwarzbach

Publication date 9 February 2017

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02948

zbMATH Keywords

simulationMaxwell's equationsfinite volumeelectrical conductivitynumerical homogenizationgeophysical electromagnetic methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Finite volume methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N08) Finite volume methods, finite integration techniques applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M12) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Optimization problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M50) Homogenization in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M40)

Abstract: Electromagnetic simulations of complex geologic settings are computationally expensive. One reason for this is the fact that a fine mesh is required to accurately discretize the electrical conductivity model of a given setting. This conductivity model may vary over several orders of magnitude and these variations can occur over a large range of length scales. Using a very fine mesh for the discretization of this setting leads to the necessity to solve a large system of equations that is often difficult to deal with. To keep the simulations computationally tractable, coarse meshes are often employed for the discretization of the model. Such coarse meshes typically fail to capture the fine-scale variations in the conductivity model resulting in inaccuracies in the predicted data. In this work, we introduce a framework for constructing a coarse-mesh or upscaled conductivity model based on a prescribed fine-mesh model. Rather than using analytical expressions, we opt to pose upscaling as a parameter estimation problem. By solving an optimization problem, we obtain a coarse-mesh conductivity model. The optimization criterion can be tailored to the survey setting in order to produce coarse models that accurately reproduce the predicted data generated on the fine mesh. This allows us to upscale arbitrary conductivity structures, as well as to better understand the meaning of the upscaled quantity. We use 1D and 3D examples to demonstrate that the proposed framework is able to emulate the behavior of the heterogeneity in the fine-mesh conductivity model, and to produce an accurate description of the desired predicted data obtained by using a coarse mesh in the simulation process.

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