A New Icebreaking Pattern for the Application in Numerical Simulation of Ship Performance in Level Ice

For the evaluation of ship performance in ice and ice loads on the ship hull, numerical simulation methods have been increasingly developed in recent years. In these models, the shapes of ice cusps broken from the intact ice sheet are idealized as either part of a circle or a triangle. Effects arising from the geometry of the loading area are neglected or idealized. Since the proper definition of the geometry of ice cusps is one of the key...