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The current trend of climate change exacerbates this kind of hazard. The availability of a reliable engineering tool, such as an accurate numerical model grounded in nanoscale melt-front physics, is imperative to provide a clear insight into the ice detachment mechanism and develop effective de-icing solutions. Classical molecular dynamics simulations are conducted in the current study to investigate the melting of an ice cube in an atomically flat silver slab. The TIP4P\/ice water model is adopted and the simulation is conducted in canonical ensemble with a layer-resolved Langevin thermostat. The phase evolution is tracked via the averaged tetrahedral order parameter, while systematically varying five controls: the depth of heated layers, the silver substrate thickness, the ice thickness, the lateral confinement, and the ice crystal contact orientation (basal vs prism). 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