A robust and energy-conserving model of freezing variably-saturated soil 冻结变饱和土的一种鲁棒节能模型.pdfVIP

The Cryosphere, 5, 469–484, 2011 /5/469/2011/ The Cryosphere doi:10.5194/tc-5-469-2011 © Author(s) 2011. CC Attribution 3.0 License. A robust and energy-conserving model of freezing variably-saturated soil 1,* 2 2 1 M. Dall’Amico , S. Endrizzi , S. Gruber , and R. Rigon 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy 2Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, Switzerland * now at: Mountain-eering srl, Via Siemens 19, Bolzano, Italy Received: 29 June 2010 – Published in The Cryosphere Discuss.: 11 August 2010 Revised: 18 May 2011 – Accepted: 19 May 2011 – Published: 1 June 2011 Abstract. Phenomena involving frozen soil or rock are im- and numerical physically-based (Zhang et al., 2008). Em- portant in many natural systems and, as a consequence, there pirical and semiempirical algorithms relate ground thawing- is a great interest in the modeling of their behavior. Few freezing depth to some aspect of surface forcing by one or models exist that describe this process for both saturated and more experimentally established coefficients (e.g. Anisimov unsaturated soil and in conditions of freezing and thawing, et al., 2002). Analytical algorithms are specific solutions to as the energy equation shows strongly non-linear character- heat conduction problems under certain assumptions. The istics and is often difficult to handle with normal methods most widely applied analytical solution is Stefan’s formula- of iterative integration. Therefore in this paper we propose tion, which simulates the freezing/thawing front using ac- a method for solving the energy equation in freezing s