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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1013-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1013-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Research article
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04 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 04 Mar 2024

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics implementation of the standard viscous–plastic sea-ice model and validation in simple idealized experiments

Oreste Marquis, Bruno Tremblay, Jean-François Lemieux, and Mohammed Islam

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We developed a standard viscous–plastic sea-ice model based on the numerical framework called smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The model conforms to the theory within an error of 1 % in an idealized ridging experiment, and it is able to simulate stable ice arches. However, the method creates a dispersive plastic wave speed. The framework is efficient to simulate fractures and can take full advantage of parallelization, making it a good candidate to investigate sea-ice material properties.
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