High Performance Computing Technologies for Modeling the Dynamics and Dispersion of Ice Chunks in the Arctic Ocean

• Main Author: Aliabadi,Shahrouz
• Other Authors: Jackson State University Jackson United States
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Computer Programming and Software; Fluid Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; high performance computing; MARGINAL ICE ZONES; SHALLOW WATER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; waves; ARCTIC OCEAN; computational fluid dynamics; fluid flow; sea ice dynamics; finite volume; MIZ (MARGINAL ICE ZONES); ice floes; ice chunks; cfd (computational fluid dynamics); CaMEL fluid flow solvers; Tsunami type waves; Circular waves; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1037351; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD1037351

Hybrid finite element/finite volume based CaMEL shallow water flow solvers have been successfully extended to study wave effects on ice floes in a simplified 10 sq-km ocean domain. Our solver combines the merits of both the finite element and finite volume methods and is much more sophisticated, robust, super convergent, and is the first of its kind approach extended for studying the dynamics and dispersion of ice chunks in ocean. Apart from studying the influence of waves on rigid, non-moving ice floes, We have also successfully implemented the automatic mesh moving techniques to study the ice kinematics. We have studied the wave-ice interactions using different artificial wave forcing mechanisms impacting, movable isolated ice floes, and also uniformly placed cluster of ice floes that are free to drift.