Modeling and Simulation Group Meeting (hidden)

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The fluid dynamics of ice and Numerical solution of a contact problem in glaciology

Speaker: Georg Stadler and Gonzalo Gonzalez de Diego, Courant Institute

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

Synopsis:

10 minute introduction to the fluid dynamics of ice by Georg Stadler

Talk by Gonzalo Gonzalez de Diego: A Stokes problem with contact boundary conditions and an evolving free boundary emerges in the study of glaciers when modeling the formation of subglacial cavities and grounding line dynamics. Before describing this contact problem, Gonzalo will first give an introduction to modeling the evolution of glaciers as viscous fluids and how the resulting equations can be solved with the finite element method in Firedrake.