River Ice – Process, Theory, and Mathematical Modeling

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• Hung Tao Shen (None / Other)
• Monday 02 October 2017, 09:45-10:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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River ice research has largely been driven by engineering and environmental problems that concern society. These concerns have been on ice jam flooding, hydropower operation, inland navigation, winter time ecology, and the influence of ice on water quality. River ice phenomena include formation, evolution, transport, accumulation, deterioration, and dissipation of various forms of ice. These phenomena involve complex interactions between hydrodynamic, mechanical, and thermal processes, under the influence of meteorological and hydrological conditions as well as the operations of water resources engineering projects. Most of the river ice phenomena also occur in sea ice, except that river ice forms in freshwater confined within channels. Mathematical modeling of river ice processes faces similar problems as sea ice, but in much smaller spatial and time scales because of the strong boundary effects. There has been only a relatively small group of researchers engaged in this no n-traditional topic of river hydraulics. However, important advances have been made in the last couple of decades. In this presentation, river ice processes and major research advances enabled by mathematical modeling will be discussed. These will include frazil and anchor formation, surface ice transport and ice jam dynamics, undercover frazil jam/hanging dam evolution, breakup processes, and sediment transport with ice effects.

Keywords: River ice, freeze up, frazil ice, ice jams, breakup, hydrodynamics, mathematical modeling 

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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