<i>Albany/FELIX</i>: a parallel, scalable and robust, finite element, first-order Stokes approximation ice sheet solver built for advanced analysis

Tezaur, I. K.; Perego, M.; Salinger, A. G.; Tuminaro, R. S.; Price, S. F.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1197-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1197-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1197-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

Model description paper

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27 Apr 2015

Model description paper |

| 27 Apr 2015

Albany/FELIX: a parallel, scalable and robust, finite element, first-order Stokes approximation ice sheet solver built for advanced analysis

I. K. Tezaur, M. Perego, A. G. Salinger, R. S. Tuminaro, and S. F. Price

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Apr 2015)
Preprint (discussion started on 24 Nov 2014)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C2715: 'More details on manufactured solution for 2-D FO system', Thomas Zwinger, 20 Dec 2014
- AC C3564: 'Response to Review C2715', Irina Tezaur, 18 Mar 2015
RC C2751: 'Referee report on: Albany/FELIX: A parallel, scalable and robust, finite element, first-order Stokes approximation ice sheet solver built for advanced analysis', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Dec 2014
- AC C3565: 'Response to Review C2751', Irina Tezaur, 18 Mar 2015
SC C2777: 'Exec Editor Comments', Dan Lunt, 23 Dec 2014
- AC C3566: 'Response to Editorial Comment C2777', Irina Tezaur, 18 Mar 2015
RC C2852: 'Review of Kalashnikova et. al: Reconsider MMS, assure reproducibility of AMG', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Jan 2015
- AC C3567: 'Response to Review C2852', Irina Tezaur, 18 Mar 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Irina Tezaur on behalf of the Authors (18 Mar 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Apr 2015) by Nina Kirchner

AR by Irina Tezaur on behalf of the Authors (04 Apr 2015) Manuscript

Short summary

In this manuscript, we discuss the development and validation of a new momentum balance solver for modeling the flow of glaciers and ice sheets based on the 1st-order Stokes equations. We demonstrate the numerical convergence of our solver (with respect to computational mesh spacing), its flexibility (with respect to both the choice of mesh and finite element type), and its computational performance (robustness and scalability when applied to both idealized and realistic ice sheet simulations).