Estimation of the thermal conductivity of a heterogeneous CH4-hydrate bearing sample based on particle swarm optimization

Knowledge of the thermophysical properties of methane hydrate-bearing sediments (MHBS) plays a critical role in the evaluation of fluid production potential from gas hydrate accumulations in geologic media. The process of estimating the values of key flow and transport parameters related to MHBS is of great importance. In this paper, we developed an integrated optimization workflow by integrating a global optimization algorithm, specifically...