Extension of NHWAVE to Couple LAMMPS for Modeling Wave Interactions with Arctic Ice Floes

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOALS: 1. Developing and testing a tightly-coupled wave-ice model system, including a nonhydrostatic wave model (NHWAVE, Ma et al., 2012) and a discrete element model (LAMMPS/LIGGGHTS; Plimpton, 1995), for simulating wave interactions with arctic ice floes. 2. Using the coupled NHWAVE and LAMMPS/LIGGGHTS models to investigate the relative importance of key physical processes governing the attenuation of wave energy in the marginal ice zone (MIZ). 3. Conducting comparative simulations to evaluate MIZ dissipation parameterizations used by larger-scale ice-ocean models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013700

Entities

People

  • Fengyan Shi
  • James T Kirby

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Couplings
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Earth Sciences
  • Efficiency
  • Energy
  • Environmental Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Marginal Ice Zones
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Potential Energy
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Wave Power
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Polar and Arctic Studies