28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P2.19

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF ICING CONTAMINATION ON AIRFOIL

T. Bortholin, F. M. Catalano
Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil

Keywords: airfoil, ice accretion, cfd

This research has involved both CFD analysis on a Glaze icing and a comparison with references results (wind tunnel test and computational analysis). This work also includes the preparation of an unstructured C shaped mesh, studies of convergence and the consequences of CFD tools.

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