Subsurface Ice Transport at a Transversally Towed Ship Model

The subsurface transport of ice along the underwater body of a ship hull or a structure may cause damages to appendages. In order to investigate the conditions under which the ice accumulation occurs, a series of model tests was carried out in the ice basin of Aalto University. The used ship model was towed laterally against the ice with one side breaking level ice. The transport of broken ice floes broken off from the intact ice sheet has been...