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Calculation and analysis of the stress field expected in an ice shell pressurized by a regional sea confined at a pole or a global internal ocean with thin ice region at one or both poles.

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EnceladusSea

Calculation and analysis of the stress field expected in an ice shell pressurized by a regional sea confined at a pole or a global internal ocean with thin ice region at one or both poles. See Johnston and Montési, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2017.

  • EnceladusBatch: run EnceladusBatch to automatically setup all models and analyse the stress at the surface of the model. This calls enceladusBuild
  • EnceladusBuild: run [out, Label] = EnceladusBuild(ThicknessShell,SeaThick,ModelType,nA) to generate a series of models with given shell thickness ThicknessShell, and south polar sea/indendation thickness Seathick for a parametric sweep of nA values of sea/indentation angle equally spaced from 0° to 90°. ModelType is a flag for the desired model configuration
    • ModelType=1: no slip at the base of the ice shell (fixed)
    • ModelType=2: free slip at the base of the ice shell (roller)
    • ModelType=3: floating ice shell with an indentation only at the South Pole (ocean)
    • ModelType=4: floating ice shell with indentations at both Pole (north)
  • makefigureEnceladus: Run makefigureEnceladus(model,Label) to visualize the stress field in the ice shell for a specific model; model is a comsol structure (figure 4 in Johnston and Montési 2017).
  • stressProfileEnceladus: run [Tectonics, MidFail]=stressProfileEnceladus(model,Yshear,Ycrack,Label) to extract the stress profile at the surface and generate most figures in the paper. model is a comsol structure, Yshear and Ycrack the von Mises strenght and tensile strength.
  • classifyTectonics: run [Tectonics,Asouth,Anorth,MidFail]=classifyTectonics(Crack, Fmode, Regime, Alind) to analyse the surface stress profile and classify the tectonic regime according the codes defined in Johnston and Montési (2017), figure 7.
  • basalStressEnceladus: run this script to extract the profile of stress at the base of the ice shell and report the stress at a short distance of the sea edge as a function of sea angle.
  • NorthRelate; run this script to calculate the north polar indentation angle as a function of the south polar indentation angle, ice shell thickness, and south polar indentatino thickness. Does not use COMSOL Multiphysics.

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