Thermal fracturing on comets

Thermal Fracturing of Pack Ice

The first step was to collect, process, and examine the data from SHEBA. The meteorological data include wind speed, air temperature, and longwave and shortwave radiation. Ice core data were used to calculate an average profile of ice salinity and porosity. Snow cover variations were combined into bins to produce a time history of the fractional coverage of snow as a function of time. Ice stres...

Auburn University Thermal Conductivity of Comets

Following comets

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Modeling 3d Hydraulic Fracture Propagation and Thermal Fracturing Using Virtual Multidimensional Internal Bonds

Fracture propagation, especially for fractures emanating from inclined wellbores and closed natural fracture often involves Mode I, Mode II, and at times Mode III fracture pattern simultaneously. In this paper a Virtual Multidimensional Internal Bond (VMIB) model is presented to simulate 3D mixedmode fracture propagation. To represent the contact and friction between fracture surfaces, a threed...

Fracturing ranked surfaces

Discretized landscapes can be mapped onto ranked surfaces, where every element (site or bond) has a unique rank associated with its corresponding relative height. By sequentially allocating these elements according to their ranks and systematically preventing the occupation of bridges, namely elements that, if occupied, would provide global connectivity, we disclose that bridges hide a new tric...