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Proppant transport validation

Per-case predicted vs observed slip / front advance bar pairs and mass-balance drift over time, generated automatically from the built-in validation registry.

Upload validation cases (multi-file CSV)

Drop any number of CSV files describing site DFIT or historical offset cases. Files are merged by caseId before the transport validation suite runs — metrics from different files sharing a case are concatenated. Conflicting source, description, or fixture columns abort the run with a clear error.

Tolerance & drift-guard overrides

Adjust per-metric `toleranceLog` bands and rerun the suite. Empty fields fall back to the global multiplier × built-in defaults.

Scales every metric's tolerance.

default 4.00e-2 · |log10(predicted/observed)| band for hindered slip velocity.

default 1.00e-2 · |log10(predicted/observed)| band for advected bed centroid.

default 1.00e-6 · Drift-guard threshold for mass conservation under noflux BCs.

Proppant transport validation suite

3/3 cases passed · 4/4 metrics passed · run @ 7/29/2026, 3:57:48 AM

ALL PASS

Showing 3/3 cases · 4/4 metric rows

CaseSourceMetricObservedPredictedRMS log-residTolerance [log]Status
bakken-dfit-2024
site-dfit
slip-velocity-mps [m/s]1.134e-31.118e-36.32e-34.00e-2
PASS
wolfcamp-offset-2023
historical-offset
bed-centroid-advance-m [m]3.088e+13.100e+11.75e-31.00e-2
PASS
mass-balance-drift []1.000e+01.000e+01.93e-161.00e-6
PASS
permian-bridging-survey-2022
historical-offset
slip-velocity-mps [m/s]1.174e-31.161e-34.87e-35.00e-2
PASS
bakken-dfit-2024

Bakken site DFIT — 100-mesh sand in linear gel (10 cP); engineer-reported hindered slip at α_s = 0.15.

PASS
site-dfit

Observed vs predicted

wolfcamp-offset-2023

Wolfcamp offset well — 40/70 sand slug carried at 0.5 m/s through a 60 m perforated interval; observed front advance after 60 s.

PASS
historical-offset

Observed vs predicted

Bed-centroid advance vs time

Mass-balance drift vs time

permian-bridging-survey-2022

Permian high-concentration bridging survey — 30/50 sand at α_s = 0.40 in 30 cP fluid; engineer-reported hindered slip.

PASS
historical-offset

Observed vs predicted