Steady plane isothermal linearly viscous flow of ice sheets on beds with moderate-slope topography

被引:9
作者
Morland, LW [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ E Anglia, Sch Math, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England
来源
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES | 2000年 / 456卷 / 1999期
关键词
glaciology; ice-sheet flow; basal topography; slow viscous flow; asymptotic expansions; two-point boundary-value problem;
D O I
10.1098/rspa.2000.0583
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The reduced model for the flow of a large ice sheet is uniformly valid when the bed topography is flat or has slopes relative to the horizontal of order no greater than epsilon, where epsilon(2) is a very small dimensionless viscosity based on the geometry and how parameters. The reduced model is given by the leading-order balances of an asymptotic expansion in epsilon. Real ice-sheet beds will have much greater slopes, of order unity in places, but commonly of moderate magnitude, say delta = 0.2, corresponding to 11 degrees, over large regions. The length s over which a moderate slope extends may be as small as the sheet thickness, or considerably greater, subject to the restriction that the amplitude a = delta s of the local topograph does not exceed the sheet thickness. Then, in addition to epsilon, there are two further independent parameters from the trio delta, s and a. An asymptotic expansion is constructed for steady plane linearly viscous isothermal flow over bed topography, such that epsilon << delta << 1; and the leading-order terms, an enhanced reduced model, are determined explicitly. First-order correction terms are also determined explicitly when s is much greater than the sheet thickness. Examples are computed in the latter case for a variety of bed forms involving isolated moderate-slope zones, and for a wavy-bed form of moderate slope. Comparisons between the leading-order solutions and the standard reduced-model flat-bed solutions are made, and the effects of the first correction terms are shown. It is found that moderate bed slopes with linearly viscous isothermal flow do not induce a significant correction, so that the enhanced reduced model provides a good approximation.
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页码:1711 / 1739
页数:29
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