ISMIP-HOM benchmark experiments using Underworld
- 1Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- 2Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- 3China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
- 1Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- 2Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- 3China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
Abstract. Numerical models have become an indispensable tool for understanding and predicting the flow of ice sheets and glaciers. Here we present the full-Stokes software package Underworld to the glaciological community. The code is already well established in simulating complex geodynamic systems. Advantages for glaciology are that it provides a full-Stokes solution for elasto-visco-plastic materials and includes mechanical anisotropy. Underworld uses a material point method to track the full history information of Lagrangian material points, of stratigraphic layers and of free surfaces. We show that Underworld successfully reproduces the results of other full-Stokes models for the benchmark experiments of the ISMIP-HOM project. Furthermore, we test FE meshes with different geometries and highlight the need to be able to adapt the finite-element grid to discontinuous interfaces between materials with strongly different properties, such as the ice-bedrock boundary.
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