| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Flow of Ice through Long Converging Channels (PDF, 554 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Kubat, Ivana1; Search for: Sayed, Mohamed1; Search for: Savage, Stuart B.; Search for: Carrieres, Tom |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Canadian Hydraulics Centre
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | POAC-07, 27-30 June 2007, Dalian, China |
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| Abstract | This paper examines some issues of the flow of ice in long and converging channels which may affect navigation. The emphasis is on pressure distributions and the role of ice properties and tidal currents. The present work employs an ice dynamics model that is based on a viscous plastic constitutive model with an elliptical yield envelope, the thickness redistribution model of Savage (2007), and a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) advection approach. Pressure distributions are obtained for an idealized geometry and uniform wind forcing. The results indicate that zones of relatively low pressures develop along the centre of the channel. Increasing the shear strength of the ice cover leads to somewhat lower pressures within such zones along the centre of the channel. That reduction of pressure is caused by the increased transfer of wind forces to land boundaries. Tides are shown to generally decrease pressures. The tidal currents also increase the overall drift, although drift slows and even reverses direction during parts of the tidal cycle. |
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| Publication date | 2007 |
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| Language | English |
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| NPARC number | 12327152 |
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| Record identifier | 238ed20b-f273-47ad-885a-49b9f9e94a43 |
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| Record created | 2009-09-10 |
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| Record modified | 2021-03-14 |
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