Mat-1.3656 Seminar on numerical analysis and computational science

Monday, March 22, 2010, room U322 at 14.15, Eirola & Stenberg

Thomas Zwinger, CSC
Finite Element techniques applied to Glaciological problems
During the last decades approximations to the Stokes equation have been the state-of-the-art in ice sheet/shelf and glacier modelling. Nevertheless, recent challenges, especially imposed by needed quantification of the contribution of marine ice sheets and glaciers to the future sea level rise motivate the deployment of full stress (full Stokes) models. In this presentation we focus on the limitation of approximations to the Stokes equation and the implementation of full stress simulations in the context of ice dynamics with the Finite Element multi-physics code Elmer.
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