Coupling an XFEM code for linear elastic fracture propagation to a viscous flow model. GeoComputation 2019

• Main Authors: Forbes, Martin, Hulbe, Christina
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: The University of Auckland 2019
• Subjects: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems; FOS Environmental engineering; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Ice Shelf; Griffith; Roosevelt Island; Shirase Coast; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.9869561; https://auckland.figshare.com/articles/Coupling_an_XFEM_code_for_linear_elastic_fracture_propagation_to_a_viscous_flow_model/9869561

Introduction: Ice shelves, floating extensions of grounded ice sheets and glaciers, border much of the Antarctic coastline and are responsible for most of the continent's ice mass loss. This is accomplished by melting and by iceberg calving, each process accounting for about half the total. Cal...