Mesoscopic numerical investigation of dynamic mechanical properties of ice with entrapped air bubbles based on a stochastic sparse distribution mechanism

Hail ice inevitably contains entrapped air bubbles in nature. The dynamic mechanical properties of ice are highly affected by the dimension, distribution and amount of the entrapped air bubbles. The bubbles in ice neither could be manufactured by man-made or obtained from nature with controllable amount and distribution, nor simulated by classic FEM in mesoscale due to its small size. A stochastic algorithm has been proposed as the sparse...