Spatiotemporal dynamics of ice streams due to a triple-valued sliding law

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 640, Issue , 2009, Pages 483-505

  Sayag, Roiy ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice sheets; Instability; Low Reynolds number flows

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GLACIERS; OSCILLATING FLOW; PLASMA STABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; VELOCITY;

GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATIONS; ICE SHEET; INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OSCILLATORY SOLUTIONS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

ICE;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; FLOW STABILITY; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; ICE FLOW; ICE STREAM; INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 76249115589     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009991406     Document Type: Article

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