# CSDMS 2016 annual meeting poster YunxiangChen

Presentation provided during SEN - CSDMS annual meeting 2016

# Computational modeling of the hydraulics of a realistic subglacial conduit in Arctic

Yunxiang Chen, Pennsylvania State University State College Pennsylvania, United States. cyxcfd@gmail.com
Xiaofeng Liu, Pennsylvania State University State College Pennsylvania, United States. xliu@engr.psu.edu
Kenneth Mankoff, Pennsylvania State University State College Pennsylvania, United States. mankoff@psu.edu

Abstract:

Understanding the hydraulics of subglacial conduits is important for accurately estimating the conduit evolution and changing speed of glaciers. Among those hydraulics problems, parameterizing the surface roughness, sinuosity, and cross-sectional contraction and expansion, and relating those parameters to the development of turbulent boundary layer and hydraulic roughness height are especially crucial. This paper introduces the parametrized surface features of a realistic subglacial conduit under the Arctic, and the preliminary results obtained from large-eddy simulation based on the real conduit geometry. The surface data shows that the small-scale roughness relates larger scale roughness by a scaling law, and can be uniquely determined by horizontal length scales ($l_x$ and $l_y$) and vertical roughness scales ($\sigma_{zx}$ and $\sigma_{zy}$). The sinuosity and cross-sectional variations along the streamwise direction are also calculated based on a self-developed Matlab code. The simulation data shows that there exists a thick boundary layer near the wall, but the influences of the surface parameters on the layer thickness and in-layer velocity is still under studying.

The near wall flow structures of a realistic subglacial conduit in Arctic at t = 20s.

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