Additional Large-Drop Ice Accretion Test Results for a Large Scale Swept Wing Section from January 2022

2023-01-1382

06/15/2023

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International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures
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In-flight icing is an important consideration that affects aircraft design, performance, certification and safety. Newer regulations combined with increasing demand to reduce fuel burn, emissions and noise are driving a need for improvements in icing simulation capability. To that end, this paper presents the results of additional ice accretion testing conducted in the NASA Icing Research Tunnel in January 2022 with a large swept wing section typical of a modern commercial transport. The model was based upon a section of the Common Research Model wing at the 64% semispan station with a streamwise chord length of 136 in. The test conditions were developed with an icing scaling analysis to generate similar conditions for a small median volumetric diameter (MVD) = 25 μm cloud and a large MVD = 110 μm cloud. A series of tests were conducted over a range of total temperature from -23.8 °C to -1.4 °C with all other conditions held constant. Another series of tests explored cloud MVD variations from 50 μm to 230 μm while holding constant certain scaling parameters. The variation in ice mass and scanned ice volume across repeat conditions was approximately 50% lower than the uncertainty in the cloud MVD and liquid water content. The measured ice mass and volume calculated from the 3D scans were used to compute the mass to volume ratio that is sometimes referred to as ice density or void fraction. When the ice volume based on the ice shape maximum combined cross section was used to determine this ratio, the resulting values were in the range of 240 to 455 kg/m3. This is consistent with analogous values previously reported in the literature. The ice shape mass and volume increased with MVD from 50 to 230 μm at fixed values of the scaling parameters. The ice mass to volume ratio was approximately constant for all of the cases which showed that the accreted mass and volume increased at approximately the same rate. These results demonstrate the significance of cloud MVD on ice shape mass and volume.
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https://doi.org/10.4271/2023-01-1382
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35
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Broeren, A., Lee, S., and Tsao, J., "Additional Large-Drop Ice Accretion Test Results for a Large Scale Swept Wing Section from January 2022," SAE Technical Paper 2023-01-1382, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4271/2023-01-1382.
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Jun 15, 2023
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2023-01-1382
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Technical Paper
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English