The quest for more energy-efficient green aircraft, dictates that all systems, including the ice protection system (IPS), be closely examined for ways to reduce energy consumption and to increase efficiency. A thermal ice protection systems must protect the aircraft from the hazardous effects of icing, and yet it needs to do so as efficiently as possible. The system can no longer be afforded the degree of over-design in power usage they once were. To achieve these more exacting designs, a better understanding of the heat and mass transport phenomena involved during an icing encounter is needed.
Altitude Effects on Thermal Ice Protection System Performance; A Study of an Alternative Simulation Approach
SAE 2015 International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures ; 2015 ; Prague, Czechoslovakia
2015-06-22
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