26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-2.6.4

PREDICTION OF SUPERCOOLED DROPLET IMPINGEMENT ON HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES

K. Szilder, H. Xu
NRC, Canada

Keywords: icing, rotorcraft aerodynamics, CFD

The objective of this paper is to examine the predictive capability of NRiCe numerical model, applied to ice formation on helicopter rotor blades. The model consists of three components: an airflow solver, a droplet trajectory solver and a morphogenetic ice growth model.

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