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Yusong Wang, Chengxiang Zhu, Ke Xiong and Chunling Zhu
Ice accumulation on airfoils and engines seriously endangers fight safety. The design of anti-icing/de-icing systems calls for an accurate measurement of the adhesion strength between ice and substrates. In this research, a test bench for adhesion streng...
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Xiaobin Shen, Chunhua Xiao, Yijun Ning, Huanfa Wang, Guiping Lin and Liangquan Wang
The impact of supercooled water droplets is the cause of aircraft icing, and the acquisition of impingement characteristics is the key to icing prediction and the design of ice protection systems. The introduction of water droplet collection efficiency i...
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Helen K. French, Mona C. Hansen, Kamilla G. Moe and Julie Stene
In cold climates, the use of de-icing chemicals in the winter can lead to groundwater contamination, especially when used in large quantities, such as at airports. Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, is situated on Norway?s largest rain-fed aquifer. Potassium form...
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Xiaobin Shen, Wenzhao Zhao, Zicheng Qi, Guiping Lin and Liangquan Wang
The investigation of super-cooled droplet impingement characteristics is the most important step for aircraft icing and anti-icing/de-icing analyses. The Lagrangian method and the Eulerian method are widely used to compute the droplet motion and collecti...
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Khitem Lahbacha, Sarah Sibilia, Gianmarco Trezza, Gaspare Giovinco, Francesco Bertocchi, Sergio Chiodini, Francesco Cristiano and Antonio Maffucci
This paper provides a study of some relevant electro-thermal properties of commercial films made by pressed graphene nano-platelets (GNPs), in view of their use as heating elements in innovative de-icing systems for aerospace applications. The equivalent...
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Alejandro Cortés, Alberto Jiménez-Suárez, Alejandro Ureña, Silvia G. Prolongo and Mónica Campo
Anti-icing and de-icing systems.
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Xiaofeng Xue, Guoyan Qiang, Yunwen Feng and Tiansu Luo
At alpine regional airports, aircraft are covered with frozen ice when they encounter extreme weather such as heavy snow or frost. The movement parts of aircraft cabin doors, flaps and landing gear may be affected due to the infiltration of freezing ice,...
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Mitsugu Hasegawa, Haruka Endo, Katsuaki Morita, Hirotaka Sakaue and Shigeo Kimura
A hybrid anti-/de-icing system combining a superhydrophobic coating and an electrothermal heater is an area of active research for aircraft icing prevention. The heater increases the temperature of the interaction surface between impinging droplets and a...
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Abdallah Samad, Eric Villeneuve, Caroline Blackburn, François Morency and Christophe Volat
Successful icing/de-icing simulations for rotorcraft require a good prediction of the convective heat transfer on the blade?s surface. Rotorcraft icing is an unwanted phenomenon that is known to cause flight cancelations, loss of rotor performance and se...
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Richard Hann, Adriana Enache, Mikkel Cornelius Nielsen, Bård Nagy Stovner, Jeroen van Beeck, Tor Arne Johansen and Kasper Trolle Borup
Atmospheric in-flight icing on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a significant hazard. UAVs that are not equipped with ice protection systems are usually limited to operations within visual line of sight or to weather conditions without icing risk. As m...
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