Update and bugfix to movement of the ice-shelf front #475
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Previously, when an ice-shelf cell transitioned from partially-full to full, it was assigned a "reference thickness" equal to the average thickness of surrounding filled cells. In this PR, this average is instead weighted by the flux from each filled cell into the partially-filled cell. This flux-weighted average is more accurate.
Also fixed the incorrect computational bounds used during advection of the ice-shelf front.
The PR has been tested by running the flow-band ice shelf test for 300 years, where the modeled ice-shelf evolution sufficiently matched the analytical solutions for ice-shelf thickness, velocity, and front advection.