Patent Document ID: 10108762
Application ID: 14505623
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for updating a physical subsurface model on a microfluidics-based chip, comprising: performing a forward simulation on a first physical subsurface model to determine a fluid state, the first physical subsurface model being a mechanical model including an adaptive reservoir on the microfluidics-based chip; conducting a sensitivity analysis on the first physical subsurface model; determining a substructure property of the first physical subsurface model by: predicting a first dataset by applying a first physical model parameter set to the first physical subsurface model; performing a set of experiments in an actual environment for which the first physical subsurface model represents to generate a second dataset; comparing the predicted first dataset with the generated second dataset; computing a gradient of an objective function based, at least in part, on the sensitivity analysis; and generating a search direction for a second physical subsurface model based, at least in part, on the computed gradient; and updating the first physical subsurface model based on the search direction to obtain the second physical subsurface model, the updating including modifying a surface property and a channel structure of the adaptive reservoir of the first physical subsurface model.