Research Catalog

Title

Theoretical glaciology : material science of ice and the mechanics of glaciers and ice sheets / Kolumban Hutter.

Author

Hutter, Kolumban.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Reidel ; Tokyo, Japan : Terra Scientific Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1983.

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Details

Description

xxxii, 510 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

A comprehensive 'mathematical' introduction to the science and behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets in their geophysical environment. In two parts: Part I. Fundamental physics and materials technology of ice. Part II. The deformation of an ice mass under its own weight.

Series Statement

Mathematical approaches to geophysics

Uniform Title

Mathematical approaches to geophysics.

Subject

• Glaciology
• Glaziologie
• Gletscherkunde
• Mathematisches Modell
• Glaciologie
• Glaziologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

GENERAL CONCEPTS: Equations of balance -- Material response -- The entropy principle -- Phase changes -- A BRIEF SUMMARY OF CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS FOR ICE: Preliminary remarks -- The mechanical properties of hexagonal ice -- The mechanical properties of polycrystalline ice -- The mechanical properties of sea ice -- A MATHEMATICAL ICE-FLOW MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO PARALLEL-SIDED ICE SLABS: Motivation and physical description -- The basic model-its field equations and boundary conditions -- The response of a parallel-sided ice slab to steady conditions -- THERMO-MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF NEARLY PARALLEL-SIDED ICE SLABS SLIDING OVER THEIR BED: Motivation -- The basic boundary-value problem and its reduction to linear form -- The solution of the boundary-value problems -- Remarks on response to a time-dependent accumulation rate -- Surface-wave stability analysis -- THE APPLICATION OF THE SHALLOW-ICE APPROXIMATION: Background and previous work -- Derivation of the basal shear-stress formula by integrating the momentum equations over ice thickness -- Solution of the ice-flow problem using the shallow-ice approximation -- Theoretical steady-state profiles -- An alternative scaling-a proper analysis of dynamics of ice sheets with ice divides -- THE RESPONSE OF A GLACIER OR AN ICE SHEET TO SEASONAL AND CLIMATIC CHANGES: Statement of the problem -- Development of the kinematic wave theory -- Theoretical solutions for a model glacier -- General treatment for an arbitrary valley glacier -- Derivation of the surface-wave equation from first principles - non-linear theory -- THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND LOCAL FLOW EFFECTS IN GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS: Effect of valley sides on the motion of a glacier -- Three-dimensional flow effects in ice sheets -- Variational principles -- Discussion of some finite-element solutions.

ISBN

• 9027714738
• 9789027714732

LCCN

83004479

OCLC

• ocm09394238
• 9394238
• SCSB-8848013

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library