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Henning Löwe

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Thermal Conductivity of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice

Henning Löwe, Marc Schneebeli Zeugin, David Nicholas Wagner

Snow significantly impacts the seasonal growth of Arctic sea ice due to its thermally insulating properties. Various measurements and parametrizations of thermal properties exist, but an assessment of the entire seasonal evolution of thermal conductivity a ...

2023

On the necessity of including vapor kinetics to model the specific surface area evolution in snow

Michael Lehning, Henning Löwe

Vapor fluxes in snow are often inferred from the temperature field by assuming vapor concentrations in local thermodynamic equilibrium with the temperature. Here we give evidence that, at the pore scale, this picture is in clear contradiction with the obse ...

2021

A unified framework for computational microstructure-based snow mechanics

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe, Lars Kristoffer Uhlen Blatny, Stephanie Wang

The effective mechanical behavior of snow can be deduced from microstructural homogenization through numerical simulations. Although such numerical upscaling of elasticity and strength of snow microstructures is standard (using FEM), numerical schemes to s ...

2021

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Porous brittle solids evidence complex mechanical behavior, where localized failure patterns originate from mechanical processes on the microstructural level. In order to investigate the failure mechanics of porous brittle solids, we outline a general stoc ...

2021

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The mechanical response of snow depends on its microstructural geometry. Parameters such as porosity and orientation (degree of anisotropy) are examples of microstructural parameters that can affect snow mechanical properties. Numerical simulations of snow ...

2020

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Porous brittle solids have the ability to collapse and fail even under compressive stresses. In fracture mechanics, this singular behavior, often referred to as anticrack, demands for appropriate continuum models to predict the catastrophic failure. To ide ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

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Porous cohesive materials can fail and collapse under compressive stresses. This mechanical behavior is generally referred to as anticrack and in snow, it is at the origin of catastrophic avalanches. In this study, we investigate how the microstructure of ...

2019

Universal features of anticrack nucleation in porous solids

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe, Jonas Ritter

Characterizing the nucleation of anticracks in porous materials under compression is a great challenge and has been the subject of several investigationsin different fields, from earthquake science, rock mechanics to avalanche research[1]. Yet, the conditi ...

2019

We have conducted discrete element simulations (PFC3D) of very loose, cohesive, granular assemblies with initial configurations which are drawn from Baxter's sticky hard sphere (SHS) ensemble. The SHS model is employed as a promising auxiliary means to ind ...

2017

Characterizing the spatial snow depth distribution in mountainous terrain

Michael Lehning, Henning Löwe, Tobias Jonas, Thomas Grünewald

Spatial snow depth information is an essential component for many applications such as the computation of snow melt rates in hydrologic applications or the energy balance in meteorological or climate models. Due to computational constraints, small-scale di ...

2013