In this work, a newly developed iced-aircraft modeling tool is applied to wings, engine inlets, and helicopter rotors. The tool is based on a multiscale-physics, unstructured finite-volume CFD approach and is applicable to general purpose aircraft icing applications. The present approach combines an Eulerian-based droplet-trajectory solver that is loosely coupled, in a time-accurate manner, to a surface-film and ice-evolution model. The goal of the model is to improve the fidelity of ice accretion modeling on dynamic geometries and for three-dimensional ice shapes typical of helicopter rotors. The numerical formulation is discussed and presented alongside 2D and 3D static validation cases, and dynamic helicopter rotors. The present results display good validation for predicting ice shape on a variety of geometries, and a strong initial capability of modeling ice forming on helicopters in forward flight.


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    Title :

    A CFD Approach for Predicting 3D Ice Accretion on Aircraft


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers



    Conference:

    SAE 2011 International Conference on Aircraft and Engine Icing and Ground Deicing ; 2011



    Publication date :

    2011-06-13




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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