Iced-Airfoil and Wing Aerodynamics

2003-01-2098

06/16/2003

Event
FAA In-flight Icing / Ground De-icing International Conference & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Past research on airfoil and wing aerodynamics in icing are reviewed. This review emphasizes the periods after the 1978 NASA Lewis workshop that initiated the modern icing research program at NASA and the current period after the 1994 ATR accident where aerodynamics research has been more aircraft safety focused. Research pre-1978 is also briefly reviewed. Following this review, our current knowledge of iced airfoil aerodynamics is presented from a flowfield-physics perspective. This section identifies four classes of ice accretions: roughness, rime ice, horn ice, and spanwise ridge ice. In these sections the key flowfield features such as flowfield separation and reattachment are reviewed and how these contribute to the known aerodynamic effects of these ice shapes. Finally Reynolds number and Mach number effects on iced-airfoil aerodynamics are briefly summarized.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2098
Pages
23
Citation
Bragg, M., Broeren, A., and Blumenthal, L., "Iced-Airfoil and Wing Aerodynamics," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-2098, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2098.
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Publisher
Published
Jun 16, 2003
Product Code
2003-01-2098
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English