Spline Approximation to the Freezing of Water in a Cylindrical Hole Drilled in an Ice Sheet.

Abstract

An interpolation continuous up to the first-order derivatives is needed to solve this problem, because the first-order derivatives are used in the formulation of the movement of the freezing front. The requirement is met in this paper by use of a parabolic spline. The Crank-Nicholson formula is used to set up the predictor-corrector scheme of time integration. Several iterations are needed to advance one step in time because of the implicit nature of the Crank-Nicholson formula and the nonlinearity involved in the freezing problem.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA006581

Entities

People

  • Shunsuke Takagi

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Freezing
  • Glaciers
  • Ice
  • Interpolation
  • Iterations
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Water

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Geotechnical Engineering.