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Add ice diffusion creep law #52

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Adding ice flow composite rheology requires to incorporate following diffusion creep law from Goldsby and Kohlstedt (2001), eq.4 + Table 6:

# Diffusion creep rheology (Goldsby and Kohlstedt 2001, eq.4 + Table 6)
m_diff     = 2
n_diff     = 1
F_diff     = (2^((2*n_diff-1)/n_diff))^-1          # simple shear epxeriments (not sure 100%)
Dv         = 9.1e-4                                # Dv: exponential prefactor[m^2/s]
Vm         = 1.97e-5                               # Vm: molar volume
A_diff     = 42.0*Vm./(R.*T_h).*Dv
Q_diff     = 59.4e3                                # Q1: diffusional activation energy[J/mol]
# Pre-computations
B_diff     = F_diff .* A_diff .^(-1.0) .* exp.( Q_diff  ./(R.*T_h))
# Isolated viscosities
Eta_diff  .= fact^(n_diff-1) .* B_diff .* Tii.^(1.0-n_diff ).*d.^m_diff

The "problem" is that the factor A_diff depends on temperature (and R*T). It is unclear how to implement this flow law. Can we readily use abstract flow laws to account for this or is more engineering needed?

Below screenshots from the paper:
Screenshot 2022-10-06 at 23 28 14
Screenshot 2022-10-06 at 23 28 31

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