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A novel improved Harris Hawks optimization algorithm coupled with ELM for predicting permeability of tight carbonates

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Tight carbonate reservoirs appear to be heterogeneous due to the patchy production of various digenetic properties. Consequently, the permeability calculation of tight rocks is costly, and only a finite number of core plugs in any single reservoir can be estimated. Hence, in the present study, a novel hybrid model constructed by combination of the improved version of the Harris Hawks optimisation (HHO), i.e., IHHO, and extreme learning machine (ELM) is proposed to predict the permeability of tight carbonates using limited number of input variables. The proposed IHHO employs a mutation mechanism to avoid trapping in local optima by increasing the search capabilities. Subsequently, ELM-IHHO, a novel metaheuristic ELM-based algorithm, was developed to predict the permeability of tight carbonates. Experimental results show that the proposed ELM-IHHO attained the most accurate prediction with R2 = 0.9254 and RMSE = 0.0619 in the testing phase. The result of the proposed model is significantly better than those obtained from other ELM-based hybrid models developed with particle swarm optimisation, genetic algorithm, and slime mould algorithm. The results also illustrate that the proposed ELM-IHHO model outperforms the other benchmark model, such as back-propagation neural nets, support vector regression, random forest, and group method of data handling in predicting the permeability of tight carbonates.

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  1. Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Discipline, School of Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia

    Navid Kardani, Majidreza Nazem & Annan Zhou

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, Patna, Bihar, 800005, India

    Abidhan Bardhan & Pijush Samui

  3. School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, MP, 466114, India

    Bishwajit Roy

  4. Department of Urban Planning, Engineering Networks and Systems, Institute of Architecture and Construction, South Ural State University, 76, Lenin Prospect, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russian Federation

    Danial Jahed Armaghani

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NK: main author, conceptualisation, development of hybrid and AI models, statistical analysis, detailing, overall analysis, visualisation, original draft and manuscript finalisation; AB: development of AI and hybrid models and statistical analysis, detailing, overall analysis; BR: development of hybrid models; PS: overall review; MN: detailed review and editing; DJA: detailed review and editing; AZ: detailed review and editing.

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Kardani, N., Bardhan, A., Roy, B. et al. A novel improved Harris Hawks optimization algorithm coupled with ELM for predicting permeability of tight carbonates. Engineering with Computers 38 (Suppl 5), 4323–4346 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01466-9

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