On the development of ice-water-structure interaction

Ice-water-structure interaction (IWSI) is a novel extension of the fluid-structure interaction (FSI), which is significant for design and operating of polar ship and offshore structures. It involves multi-media and multi-interfaces and thus is quite complicated to solve, no matter from mathematical or mechanical perspectives. Although IWSI is complex and still very new, researchers try to develop various methods to deal with it and relevant literature starts to bloom. This paper aims to provide concise descriptions of typical analytical numerical and experimental methods to solve IWSI, together with a review of their major applications to date. Lastly, we succinctly highlight some development tendencies and some pieces of work to be investigated for each method.