Buoyancy-Driven Ice Breaking
A light sphere that rises by buoyancy to impact ice plates, providing a powerless new approach for ice breaking.
Xue, Yanzhuo · Chen-Xi, Zhang · Wu, Qigang · Tan, Hao · Xu, Xuesong · Ni, Baoyu
Ocean Engineering 2024
Numerical results agree well with experiments in the literature
Fracture process and vertical ice load were analyzed in detail
The kinetic energy of the sphere dominates the damage degree