Oil tanker under ice loadings

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Gaidai, Oleg, Yan, Ping, Xing, Yihan, Xu, Jingxiang, Zhang, Fuxi, Wu, Yu
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Dyna; Global warming
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10226992/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37248360; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34606-w

As a result of global warming, the area of the polar pack ice is diminishing, making merchant travel more practical. Even if Arctic ice thickness reduced in the summer, fractured ice is still presenting operational risks to the future navigation. The intricate process of ship-ice interaction include...