A theoretical treatment of the sliding of glaciers in the absense of cavitation

DOI10.1098/rsta.1981.0003zbMath0477.76007OpenAlexW2132673257WikidataQ63965235 ScholiaQ63965235MaRDI QIDQ3933969

Andrew C. Fowler

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:57c60f28-0295-4fd6-8af7-f803854df78f

zbMATH Keywords

roughnessmoisturedimensional analysisglacier slidingbedrock corrugationboundary layer to larger-scale bulk ice flowcoupled flow in basal ice and a thin water filmnonlinear stress-strain rate relationsnonlinearity of flow law for icetemperature problem in underlying bedrock

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Geophysics (86A99)

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