This paper presents a novel level-set-based approach to model evolving boundary problems for in-flight ice accretion. No partial differential equations are solved as in the standard level-set formulation, but simple geometrical quantities are employed to provide an implicit discretization of the updated boundary. This method avoids mesh entanglements and grid intersections typical of algebraic and mesh deforming techniques, making it suitable for generating a body-fitted discretization of arbitrarily complex geometries as in-flight ice shapes, including the collision of separate ice fronts. Moreover, this paper presents a local ice thickness correction, which accounts for the body’s curvature, to conserve the prescribed iced mass locally. The verification includes ice accretion over an ellipse and a manufactured example to show the proposed strategy’s advantages and robustness compared to standard algebraic methods. Finally, the method is applied to ice accretion problems. A temporal and grid convergence study is presented for automatic multistep in-flight simulations over a NACA0012 airfoil in rime, glaze, and mixed ice conditions.


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    Title :

    Level-Set Mass-Conservative Front-Tracking Technique for Multistep Simulations of In-Flight Ice Accretion


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Journal of Aircraft ; 60 , 4 ; 1050-1060


    Publication date :

    2023-01-27


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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