New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models
Global warming has extensively transformed Arctic sea ice from continuous level-ice coverage to unconsolidated ice floe fields. Whilst the ice floes have a mixture of different sizes and their locations are randomly distributed, contemporary computational models lack effective methods to generate fl...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10152787 2023-12-24T10:12:01+01:00 New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models Huang, Luofeng Igrec, Bojan Thomas, Giles 2022-08-01 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152787/1/Thomas_OMAE-21-1172-Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152787/ eng eng ASME https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152787/1/Thomas_OMAE-21-1172-Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152787/ open Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering , 144 (4) , Article 044503. (2022) polar sea ice random distribution floe size distribution floe shape algorithms modeling waves in ice offshore structures and ships in ice Article 2022 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:39Z Global warming has extensively transformed Arctic sea ice from continuous level-ice coverage to unconsolidated ice floe fields. Whilst the ice floes have a mixture of different sizes and their locations are randomly distributed, contemporary computational models lack effective methods to generate floe fields with such a natural pattern. This work introduces two original tools that can generate realistic ice floe fields for computational models. They are a sequential generator that sequentially handles ice floes one by one, and a genetic generator based upon a genetic algorithm. Demonstration of the tools is given, presenting samples of generating various shapes of floes and arbitrary mixtures of different shapes. Furthermore, an example is provided that combines the generated floe field with computational work modeling a ship transiting in ice floes. In addition, the source code of the tools is sharable to the public. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Global warming Sea ice University College London: UCL Discovery Arctic |
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Global warming has extensively transformed Arctic sea ice from continuous level-ice coverage to unconsolidated ice floe fields. Whilst the ice floes have a mixture of different sizes and their locations are randomly distributed, contemporary computational models lack effective methods to generate floe fields with such a natural pattern. This work introduces two original tools that can generate realistic ice floe fields for computational models. They are a sequential generator that sequentially handles ice floes one by one, and a genetic generator based upon a genetic algorithm. Demonstration of the tools is given, presenting samples of generating various shapes of floes and arbitrary mixtures of different shapes. Furthermore, an example is provided that combines the generated floe field with computational work modeling a ship transiting in ice floes. In addition, the source code of the tools is sharable to the public. |
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Huang, Luofeng Igrec, Bojan Thomas, Giles |
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Huang, Luofeng Igrec, Bojan Thomas, Giles |
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New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models |
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New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models |
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New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models |
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New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models |
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New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models |
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new tools to generate realistic ice floe fields for computational models |
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Arctic Arctic Global warming Sea ice |
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Arctic Arctic Global warming Sea ice |
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Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering , 144 (4) , Article 044503. (2022) |
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