NASA's program in aircraft icing research and technology is reviewed. The program relies heavily on computer codes and modern applied physics technology in seeking icing solutions on a finer scale than those offered in earlier programs. Three major goals of this program are to offer new approaches to ice protection, to improve the ability to model the response of an aircraft to an icing encounter, and to provide improved techniques and facilities for ground and flight testing. The following program elements are reviewed: (1) new approaches to ice protection; (2) numerical codes for deicer analysis; (3) measurement and prediction of ice accretion and its effect on aircraft and aircraft components; (4) special wind tunnel test techniques for rotorcraft icing; (5) improvements of icing wind tunnels and research aircraft; (6) ground de-icing fluids used in winter operation; (7) fundamental studies in icing; and (8) droplet sizing instruments for icing clouds.
NASA's program on icing research and technology
1989-09-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
NASA's program on icing research and technology
NTRS | 1989
|NASA's aircraft icing technology program
NTRS | 1991
|NASA's Aircraft Icing Technology Program
NTIS | 1991
|NASA's rotorcraft icing research program
NTRS | 1988
|NASA's aircraft icing analysis program
NTRS | 1986
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