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Problems
The aim of this Section is to describe which solvers and user functions can be used to solve a given type of glaciological problems.
Elmer/Ice capabilities are listed below:
- Various rheology (Glen’s law, firn/snow and two anisotropic flow laws)
- Temperature solver accounting for the upper limit at melting point
- Evolution equations for density, fabric, …
- Evaluation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a tensor (strain-rate, stress)
- Various friction laws (Weertman, effective-pressure dependent friction law)
- Grounding line dynamics solved as a contact problem
- Inverse methods (linear adjoint and Arthern and Gudmundsson's 2010 methods)
- Tools to mesh glaciers (YAMS, extrusion of footprint)
- Highly parallel Stokes solver
