Numerical simulation of the motion of an ice keel in a stratified flow

Abstract

The results of the three-dimensional numerical simulation for the study of the stratification effect and wave processes associated with it on the drag of the underwater part of the hummocked ice are considered. The numerical model is based on the sampling of equations on a rectangular grid using the immersed boundary method that makes it possible to explicitly describe the interaction of moving ice with a stratified flow. The dependence of the drag force on the Froude number was established based on these calculations. This dependence has expressed points of maximum and minimum. The form of this dependence is common for the considered models of ice keels. The obtained estimations of drag force consistent with the known results of laboratory experiments show the need for the construction of parametrizations of the drag coefficient on the ice–ocean boundary, taking into account wave effects.