Ice accretion on fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle—A Review Study

M Muhammed, MS Virk - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ice accretion on commercial aircraft operating at high Reynolds numbers has been
extensively studied in the literature, but a direct transformation of these results to an …

Effects of ambient temperature and wind speed on icing characteristics and anti-icing energy demand of a blade airfoil for wind turbine

Z Xu, T Zhang, X Li, Y Li - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The icing on wind turbines causes liability issues in cold and humid climate regions with
extreme climatic conditions. Accordingly, in this study, numerical simulation is employed to …

Turbulence modeling of iced wind turbine airfoils

F Martini, H Ibrahim, LT Contreras Montoya, P Rizk… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Icing is a severe problem faced by wind turbines operating in cold climates. It is affected by
various fluctuating parameters. Due to ice accretion, a significant drop in the aerodynamic …

UAV icing: The influence of airspeed and chord length on performance degradation

R Hann, TA Johansen - Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of icing on unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) at low Reynolds numbers and to highlight the differences to icing on …

A frost model based on the frost layer's supporting function

Z Xu, Z Wang, Z Liang, H Chen, Z Han - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The existence of frost has adverse effects the normal operation of air source heat pumps.
Therefore, establishing an accurate frost model is of great significance to suppressing the …

[HTML][HTML] UAV icing: Development of an ice protection system for the propeller of a small UAV

NC Müller, B Løw-Hansen, KT Borup, R Hann - Cold Regions Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric icing, also called in-flight icing, is a common hazard for the operation of
uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). With the background of a growing commercial and military …

UAV icing: a performance model for a UAV propeller in icing conditions

NC Müller, R Hann - AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-3903. vid In-flight icing on
unmanned aerial vehicles is a severe hazard and imposes limits on the operational …

Aerodynamic shape optimization of wind turbine blades for minimizing power production losses due to icing

O Yirtici, IH Tuncer - Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Ice formation on a wind turbine alters the airfoil profiles of the blades and causes
degradation in the aerodynamic performance of the wind turbine and the resulting power …

Development of an icing simulation code for rotating wind turbines

C Son, T Kim - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aims to develop a three-dimensional icing simulation code named WISE (Wind
turbine Icing Simulation code with performance Evaluation) integrated into OpenFOAM® …

Experimental study of a piezoelectric de-icing system implemented to rotorcraft blades

E Villeneuve, S Ghinet, C Volat - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
A four-year project investigating the use of piezoelectric actuators as a vibration-based low
power de-icing system has been initiated at the Anti-Icing Materials Laboratory. The work …