Traveling Wave Solutions to the Problem of Quasi-Steady Freezing of Soils

The results of mathematical and experimental studies presented in preceding reports clearly show that the model M1 accurately describes the properties of a frozen fringe when the steady growth of an ice layer occurs. In this work the steady growth of ice-rich frozen soil is studied by using M1. Deri...

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Main Author: Nakano, Yoshisuke
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1994
Subjects:
Soil Mechanics
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*ICE
*FROZEN SOILS
*FROST HEAVE
*TRAVELING WAVES
VELOCITY
MODELS
LAYERS
ISOTHERMS
HYDRAULICS
PRESSURE
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
SOILS
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
AST24
OVERBURDEN
PE61102A
WUF01
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA280971
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Summary:The results of mathematical and experimental studies presented in preceding reports clearly show that the model M1 accurately describes the properties of a frozen fringe when the steady growth of an ice layer occurs. In this work the steady growth of ice-rich frozen soil is studied by using M1. Deriving a traveling wave solution to the problem, we have found that the condition of steady growth of ice-rich frozen soil is uniquely determined by a set of two physical variables, such as alpha sub 0 and alpha sub 1 used earlier, under given hydraulic conditions and over-burden pressures and that the traveling wave solution converges to the solution to the problem of a steadily growing ice layer when the velocity of the 0 deg C isotherm relative to the unfrozen part of the soil vanishes. Frost heave, Mathematical analysis, Frozen soil, Traveling wave solutions.

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