Two-dimensional and quasi-3D in-flight ice accretion simulation codes have been widely
used by the aerospace industry for the last two decades as an aid to the certification
process. The present paper proposes an efficient numerical method for calculating ice
shapes on simple or complex 3D geometries. The resulting ice simulation system, FENSAP-
ICE, is built in a modular fashion to successively solve each flow, impingement and
accretion via field models based on partial differential equations (PDEs). The FENSAP-ICE …

Two-dimensional and quasi-3D in-flight ice accretion simulation codes have been widely
used by the aerospace industry for the last two decades as an aid to the certification
process. Such codes predict 2-D sectional ice shapes, which are then manufactured from a
light material and attached as disposable profiles on a test aircraft to investigate it for stability
and control under icing encounters. Although efficient for calculating ice shapes on simple
geometries, current codes encounter major difficulties or simply cannot simulate ice shapes …