Steady, shallow ice sheets as obstacle problems: Well-posedness and finite element approximation

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1292-1314

  Jouvet, Guillaume ^a   Bueler, Ed ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Ice sheet model; Obstacle problem; P laplace; Shallow ice approximation; Variational inequality

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT; ICE SHEET MODELS; OBSTACLE PROBLEMS; P-LAPLACE; SHALLOW ICE APPROXIMATION; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ICE;

EID: 84866391623     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110856654     Document Type: Article

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