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An experimental and theoretical study of the ice accretion process during artificial and natural icing conditions

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Kirby, Mark Samuel; Hansman, Robert John
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Abstract
Real-time measurements of ice growth during artificial and natural icing conditions were conducted using an ultrasonic pulse-echo technique. This technique allows ice thickness to be measured with an accuracy of ł0.5 mm; in addition, the ultrasonic signal characteristics may be used to detect the presence of liquid on the ice surface and hence discern wet and dry ice growth behaviour. Ice growth was measured on the stagnation line of a cylinder exposed to artificial icing conditions in the NASA Lewis Icing Research Tunnel, and similarly for a cylinder exposed in flight to natural icing conditions. Ice thickness was observed to increase approximately linearly with exposure time during the initial icing period. The ice accretion rate was found to vary with cloud temperature during wet ice growth, and liquid runback from the stagnation region was inferred. A steady-state energy balance model for the icing surface was used to compare heat transfer characteristics for icing wind tunnel and natural icing conditions. Ultrasonic measurements of wet and dry ice growth observed in the Icing Research Tunnel and in flight were compared with icing regimes predicted by a series of heat transfer coefficients. The heat transfer magnitude was generally inferred to be higher for the icing wind tunnel tests than for the natural icing conditions encountered in flight. An apparent variation in the heat transfer magnitude was also observed for flights conducted through different natural icing cloud formations
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May 1986
 
Also issued as an M.S. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1986
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-129)
 
Date issued
1986
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68059
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1986]
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16386635
Series/Report no.
FTL report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flight Transportation Laboratory) ; R86-7
Keywords
Aeronautics, Airplanes, Safety measures, Ice prevention, Climatic factors

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