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Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice

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The different approaches explored by the authors to model the visco-plastic anisotropic behaviour of polar ice associated with the formation and evolution of fabrics, are reviewed. In order to achieve ice rheological models which can significantly improve the simulations of the evolution of ice sheets under varying climatic conditions, these models aim at taking into account the physical mechanisms likely to be active under the conditions prevailing in an ice sheet. Since the destination of a constitutive model for polar ice is its implementation into a large scale ice-sheet model, which is to be run extensively to simulate various climatic scenarios, some compromises must be made to limit its complexity. A possible solution is to use a hierarchy of models of increasing complexity. In this respect the results from the different models are compared and discussed from the viewpoint of ice-sheet flow modelling.

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Meyssonnier, J., Duval, P., Gagliardini, O., Philip, A. (2001). Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice. In: Straughan, B., Greve, R., Ehrentraut, H., Wang, Y. (eds) Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04439-1_14

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