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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (S1): 730570.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2024.30570

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Research progress on simulation methods of drop diameter distribution in supercooled large drop icing conditions

Liping WANG(), Fuxin WANG, Hong LIU   

  1. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240,China
  • Received:2024-04-22 Revised:2024-05-09 Accepted:2024-05-27 Online:2024-06-03 Published:2024-05-29
  • Contact: Liping WANG E-mail:lipingwang@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(52202447);Shanghai Sailing Program(22YF1419000)

Abstract:

Since the end of the last century, the phenomenon of aircraft icing in Supercooled Large Drop (SLD) icing conditions (14 CFR Part 25 Appendix O) have attracted much attention. Its impact on flight safety is worse than that under atmospheric icing conditions (14 CFR Part 25 Appendix C). The successive promulgation of Amendment of FAR 25-140 and EASA CS-25 16 indicates that the implementation of SLD icing airworthiness compliance verification is a mandatory condition for China’s large civil aircraft to obtain European and American airworthiness certificates. The simulation of SLD icing conditions is a pre-requisite for the ground SLD icing test, and is very important for the design of SLD anti-icing system and the verification of icing test. In this paper, the typical characteristics of the drop diameter distribution simulation under the icing conditions of SLD, namely, large drop diameter span with bimodal distribution and low Liquid Water Content (LWC), are analyzed. The research and development of the simulation methods of drop diameter distribution under SLD icing conditions in the world’s major icing research institutions in the past 30 years are reviewed. It is found that the technology for simulating the drop diameter distribution of Freezing Drizzle (FZDZ) mainly goes through four stages: increasing the Median Volume Diameter (MVD) of the spray, alternately producing MVD clouds with different sizes, regulating water pressure and simultaneously producing clouds with different MVD, and using two sets of independently controllable MVD cloud generation systems. Simulation of the drop diameter distribution for Freezing Rain (FZRA) is even more challenging and is still in the initial stages of development. The main achievements are introduced and the problems are discussed. Finally, the research direction, key technical problems and solutions of drop diameter distribution simulation in SLD icing conditions are discussed.

Key words: aircraft ground test, aircraft icing condition, supercooled large drop, drop diameter distribution, simulation method, double spray mixing, single drop and spray mixing

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