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Acta Oceanol. Sin ., 2014, Vol. 33, No. 1, P. 56–63 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-014-0428-3 E-mail: hyxbe@263.net A modified discrete element model for sea ice dynamics 1,2,3,4,5 4,5 4,5 6 6∗ LI Baohui , LI Hai , LIU Yu , WANG Anliang , JI Shunying 1 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China 2 Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves (KLOCAW), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China 3 Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China 4 National Marine Environment Forecast Center, State Oceanic Administration, Beijing 100081, China 5 Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting, State Oceanic Administration, Beijing 100081, China 6 State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China Received 21 September 2010; accepted 11 March 2011 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract Considering the discontinuous characteristics of sea ice on various scales, a modified discrete element mod- el (DEM) for sea ice dynamics is developed based on the granular material rheology. In this modified DEM, a soft sea ice particle element is introduced as a self-adjustive particle size function. Each ice particle can be treated as an assembly of ice floes, with its concentration and thickness changing to variable sizes un- der the conservation of mass. In this model, the contact forces among ice particles are calculated using a viscous-elastic-plastic model, while the maximum shear forces are described with the Mohr-Coulomb fric- tion law. With this modified DEM, the ice flow dynamics is simulated under the drags of wind and current in a channel of various widths. The thicknesses, concentrations and velocities of ice particles are obtained, and then reasonable dynamic process is analyze