TY  - JOUR
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
IS  - 4
PB  - ASME
SN  - 0892-7219
A1  - Huang, Luofeng
A1  - Igrec, Bojan
A1  - Thomas, Giles
Y1  - 2022/08/01/
ID  - discovery10152787
TI  - New Tools to Generate Realistic Ice Floe Fields for Computational Models
EP  - 6
N2  - Global warming has extensively transformed Arctic sea ice from continuous level-ice coverage to unconsolidated ice floe fields. Whilst the ice floes have a mixture of different sizes and their locations are randomly distributed, contemporary computational models lack effective methods to generate floe fields with such a natural pattern. This work introduces two original tools that can generate realistic ice floe fields for computational models. They are a sequential generator that sequentially handles ice floes one by one, and a genetic generator based upon a genetic algorithm. Demonstration of the tools is given, presenting samples of generating various shapes of floes and arbitrary mixtures of different shapes. Furthermore, an example is provided that combines the generated floe field with computational work modeling a ship transiting in ice floes. In addition, the source code of the tools is sharable to the public.
AV  - public
VL  - 144
KW  - polar
KW  -  sea ice
KW  -  random distribution
KW  -  floe size distribution
KW  -  floe shape
KW  -  algorithms
KW  -  modeling
KW  -  waves in ice
KW  -  offshore structures and ships in ice
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054658
JF  - Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
ER  -