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The main focus of this paper is on stable FE-discretisations for treating systems of partial differential equations arising in glaciology. The systems are coupled ones, consisting of a flow problem determining stress, pressure and velocity and evolution problems for temperature and mean orientation densities, describing anisotropic material behaviour. The proposed strategies are applied to a standard model for describing ice sheet dynamics and an enhanced one, taking into account the developement of certain fabrics in the structure of the ice.
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Gödert, G., Suttmeier, FT. (2004). On Computational Glaciology: FE-Simulation of Ice Sheet Dynamics. In: Feistauer, M., Dolejší, V., Knobloch, P., Najzar, K. (eds) Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18775-9_35
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