We have conducted convection-resolving simulations of ice dissolution, in the homogeneous ambient water [Gayen et al. 2016], in order to examine the physics of melting. The results show that temperature is not the only factor controlling the rate of ice sheet melting; the transport of salt to the ice-water interface also plays a key role. The simulations produced results in excellent agreement with experimental measurements at ANU.
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B. Gayen, R. W. Griffiths and R. C. Kerr (2016) Simulation of convection at a vertical ice face dissolving into saline water Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 798, 284-298. (doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.315)