Ice-lens formation and geometrical supercooling in soils and other colloidal materials.

We present a physically intuitive model of ice-lens formation and growth during the freezing of soils and other dense, particulate suspensions. Motivated by experimental evidence, we consider the growth of an ice-filled crack in a freezing soil. At low temperatures, ice in the crack exerts large pre...

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Main Authors: Style, R, Peppin, S, Cocks, A, Wettlaufer, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011