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Simulation of Ice Particle Melting in the NRCC RATFac Mixed-Phase Icing Tunnel
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2015-01-2107
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Ice crystals ingested by a jet engine at high altitude can partially melt and then accrete within the compressor, potentially causing performance loss, damage and/or flameout. Several studies of this ice crystal icing (ICI) phenomenon conducted in the RATFac (Research Altitude Test Facility) altitude chamber at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC) have shown that liquid water is required for accretion. CFD-based tools for ICI must therefore be capable of predicting particle melting due to heat transfer from the air warmed by compression and possibly also due to impact with warm surfaces. This paper describes CFD simulations of particle melting and evaporation in the RATFac icing tunnel for the former mechanism, conducted using a Lagrangian particle tracking model combined with a stochastic random walk approach to simulate turbulent dispersion. Inter-phase coupling of heat and mass transfer is achieved with the particle source-in-cell method. Predictions are compared to turbulence measurements and measurements of total-water and liquid-water content (TWC, LWC) obtained with iso-kinetic and SEA multi-element probes respectively. They are also compared to measured changes in air temperature and humidity ratio resulting from particle evaporation and melting. Good agreement is obtained for these changes under (low pressure) conditions where they are large and interphase heat/mass coupling is very significant. Predicted LWC levels bracket the SEA measurements at low values but are much greater at higher LWC. These predictions suggest that the critical LWC/TWC range for ICI accretion may be higher than previously inferred from SEA measurements.
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Currie, T., Fuleki, D., and Davison, C., "Simulation of Ice Particle Melting in the NRCC RATFac Mixed-Phase Icing Tunnel," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-2107, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-2107.Also In
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