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Anisotropic Permeability Tensor Prediction from Porous Media Microstructure via Physics-Informed Progressive Transfer Learning with Hybrid CNN-Transformer

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2603.17532v1 Announce Type: new Accurate prediction of permeability tensors from pore-scale microstructure images is essential for subsurface flow modeling, yet direct numerical simulation requires hours per sample, fundamentally limiting large-scale uncertainty quantification and reservoir optimization workflows. A physics-informed deep learning framework is presented that resolves this bottleneck by combining a MaxViT hybrid CNN-Transformer architecture with progressive transfer learning and differentiable physical constraints.