circular_shelf¶

The landice/circular_shelf test group implements a circular and radially symmetric ice shelf with a constant thickness that is grounded at its center. The purpose is to provide a regression test for ice shelf velocity. There is not an analytic solution, and the test case is not meant to be run forward in time beyond the initial diagnostic solve, because the ice shelf would quickly unground and become an iceberg. Because of the presence of floating ice, this test group is only appropriate to use with the FO velocity solver.

As defined, the test uses a grid resolution of 1250 m and 5 vertical layers.

The test group includes a single test cases, a decomposition test. The test has 3 steps, setup_mesh, which defines the mesh and initial conditions for the model; run_model, which runs the model; and visualize, which optionally plots the results of the test case (PNG files, plot windows, or both).

../../../_images/circ_shelf_velos.png — Plot of modeled velocity generated by the visualization step.¶

../../../_images/circ_shelf_xsect.png — Cross section plot of modeled velocity generated by the visualization step.¶

config options¶

The test group uses the following default config options:

# config options for circular_shelf test cases
[circular_shelf]

# sizes (in cells) for the uniform mesh
nx = 40
ny = 46

# resolution (in m) for the uniform mesh
dc = 1250.0

# number of levels in the mesh
levels = 5

# whether to use large basal friction or Dirichlet conditions at bed
use_mu = False

# option to make the grounded area 7 cells instead of 1
use_7cells = True

# config options related to visualization for circular_shelf test cases
[circular_shelf_viz]

# which time index to visualize
time_slice = 0

# whether to save image files
save_images = True

# whether to hide figures (typically when save_images = True)
hide_figs = True

decomposition_test¶

landice/circular_shelf/decomposition_test runs a single velocity solve on 1 (1proc_run step) and then on 4 processors (4proc_run step) to make sure the resulting velocity solution has small errors consistent with known non-bit-for-bit decomposition differences of the Albany FO velocity solver.