The origin of the reference frame is point O at the bottom-left corner. The four edges are simply supported. The ice floe is modelled as a combination of a sphere and a cylinder, given in Fig. 4. The mesh size of the ice floe is 50 mm × 50 mm × 50 mm. This mesh size is selected based on the mesh size sensitivity analysis in Appendix B. More @Wikipedia
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