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subglacial_conduit_hydraulics_CFD

A repository for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of subglacial conduit hydraulics. Within this repository, we have solvers, tools, and case setups for the CFD simulations of turbulent flows within subglaical conduits.

This work is based on the open source CFD platform OpenFOAM.

Credits:

• Ph.D. student: Yunxiang Chen, who performed most of simulations and code development.
• Dr. Ken Mankoff at Penn State (co-PI of this project).

Acknowledgements

• Financial support from U.S. National Science Foundation (Award Number PLO-1503928).
• OpenFOAM community

Publications:

• K. Mankoff, J. Gulley, T. Slawek, M. Covington, X. Liu, Y. Chen, D. Benn, P. Glowacki. Roughness of a subglacial conduit under Hansbreen, Svalbard, Journal of Glaciology, minor revision, 2016.
• Chen, Y., Liu, X., and Mankoff, K. An estimation of the equivalent roughness height of a real subglacial conduit in Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, in preparation, 2016

Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D., P.E.

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Penn State University

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