Thea Josefine Ellevold

• Løken, Trygve Kvåle; Marchenko, Aleksey; Ellevold, Thea Josefine; Rabault, Jean & Jensen, Atle (2022). Experiments on turbulence from colliding ice floes. Physics of Fluids. ISSN 1070-6631. 34(6). doi: 10.1063/5.0088953. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Increased knowledge about energy dissipation processes around colliding ice floes is important for improved understanding of atmosphere-ice-ocean energy transfer, wave propagation through sea ice, and the polar climates. The aim of this study is to obtain such information by investigating colliding ice floe dynamics in a large-scale experiment and directly measuring and quantifying the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE). The field work was carried out at Van Mijen Fjord on Svalbard, where a 3x4 m ice floe was sawed out in the fast ice. Ice floe collisions and relative water–ice motion were generated by pulling the ice floe back and forth in an oscillatory manner in a 4x6 m pool, using two electrical winches. Ice floe motion was measured with a range meter and accelerometers, and the water turbulence was measured acoustically with Doppler velocimeters and optically with a remotely operated vehicle and bubbles as tracers. Turbulent kinetic energy spectra were found to contain an inertial subrange where energy was cascading at a rate proportional to the -5/3 power law. The TKE dissipation rate was found to decrease exponentially with depth. The total TKE dissipation rate was estimated by assuming that turbulence was induced over an area corresponding to the surface of the floe. The results suggest that approximately 37% and 8% of the input power from the winches were dissipated in turbulence and absorbed in the collisions, respectively, which experimentally confirms that energy dissipation by induced turbulent water motion is an important mechanism for colliding ice floe fields.

• Løken, Trygve Kvåle; Marchenko, Aleksey; Ellevold, Thea Josefine; Rabault, Jean & Jensen, Atle (2021). An investigation into the turbulence induced by moving ice floes. Proceedings - International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions. ISSN 0376-6756. Full text in Research Archive
• Løken, Trygve Kvåle; Ellevold, Thea Josefine; Ramirez de La Torre, Reyna Guadalupe; Rabault, Jean & Jensen, Atle (2021). Bringing optical fluid motion analysis to the field: A methodology using an open source ROV as a camera system and rising bubbles as tracers. Measurement Science and Technology. ISSN 0957-0233. 32(9). doi: 10.1088/1361-6501/abf09d. Full text in Research Archive
• Marchenko, Aleksey; Zenkin, Alex; Marchenko, Nataliya; Paynter, Chris; Whitchelo, Yiyi & Ellevold, Thea Josefine [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Monitoring of 3D motion of drifting iceberg with an ice tracker equipped with accelerometers. Proceedings of the IAHR International Symposium on ice. ISSN 2414-6331. p. 641–651.

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• Løken, Trygve Kvåle; Marchenko, Aleksey; Ellevold, Thea Josefine; Rabault, Jean & Jensen, Atle (2021). An investigation into the turbulence induced by moving ice floes.

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