Apparatus and associated methods relate to determining, based on a spatial extent of ice accretion, whether an atmosphere contains super-cooled water droplets that equal and/or exceed a predetermined size. A convex-shaped housing is mounted to an aircraft and exposed to an airstream. The convex-shaped housing has a testing region that is monitored for ice accretion by an ice detector. A boundary locator determines a specific location to be tested within the testing region. The determined specific location corresponds to a calculated boundary that separates an ice-accretion region from an ice-free region if the atmosphere contains super-cooled water droplets up to the predetermined size. If the ice detector detects ice accretion at the determined specific location, an alert is generated. The alert can advantageously inform a pilot of an atmosphere containing super-cooled water droplets that equal or exceed the predetermined size.
AUTOMATED SUPER-COOLED WATER-DROPLET SIZE DIFFERENTIATION USING AIRCRAFT ACCRETION PATTERNS
AUTOMATISIERTE GRÖSSENUNTERSCHEIDUNG VON SUPERGEKÜHLTEN WASSERTROPFEN UNTER VERWENDUNG VON FLUGZEUGANLAGERUNGSMUSTERN
DIFFÉRENCIATION DE TAILLE DE GOUTTELETTES D'EAU SUPER REFROIDIE AUTOMATISÉE AU MOYEN DE MOTIFS D'ACCRÉTION D'AÉRONEF
2019-02-20
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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