Special Topic: Anti-icing and De-icing Technology for Aeroengines

Test on ice accretion and shedding of transonic fan blades in ice wind tunnel environment

  • Lizhi WANG ,
  • Wei ZHAO ,
  • Qiangren XU ,
  • Kai ZHANG ,
  • Xiaorong XIANG ,
  • Qingjun ZHAO
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  • 1.Institutes of Engineering Thermophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
    2.National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Light-Duty Gas-Turbine,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
    3.School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
    4.Jinan Institute of Advanced Gas-Turbine,Jinan 251401,China
    5.Beijing Key Laboratory of Distributed Combined Cooling Heating and Power System,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
E-mail: zhaoqingjun@iet.cn

Received date: 2025-11-03

  Revised date: 2025-12-11

  Accepted date: 2026-01-06

  Online published: 2026-01-19

Supported by

Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2441278);Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(52236005)

Abstract

To investigate the laws of surface ice accretion and ice shedding characteristics of transonic rotor blades under different conditions, and to obtain the ice shedding position and cross-sectional structure, study takes transonic fan rotor blades as the resea -rch object. Based on an ice wind tunnel system with natural low temperature,test studies on ice accretion and shedding of rotor blades were carried out under typical icing conditions. The results show that ice accretion occurs on both the suction surf-ace and pressure surface of the transonic fan rotor blades, and ice shedding starts simultaneously from both surfaces of the blades. As the ambient temperature decreases, the ice shape on the blade surface changes from glaze ice to mixed ice, and then to rime ice. Ice shedding is affected by blade rotational speed, rotational acceleration rate, and ambient temperature; the time required for ice shedding and the degree of ice shedding vary under different conditions. When the ambient temperature is constant, as the ice-accreting rotational speed of the blade increases, the ice-shedding rotational speed increases monotonically, while the ice-shedding time decreases monotonically. Meanwhile, the ice shedding amount on both the pressure surface and suction surface of the blade increases with the increase of blade rotational speed. When ice shedding is conducted by increasing the rotational acceleration rate, as the rotational acceleration rate increases, the degree of ice shedding on the blade surface increases monotonically, while the ice shedding time decreases monotonically. For ice shedding under different temperatures, as the temperature decreases, the degree of ice shedding decreases, and the time requirde for ice to shed from the blade surface is extended.Within a certain range, the prediction model for ice shedding rotational speed established based on test data canaccurately predict the ice shedding rotational speed under different operating conditions.

Cite this article

Lizhi WANG , Wei ZHAO , Qiangren XU , Kai ZHANG , Xiaorong XIANG , Qingjun ZHAO . Test on ice accretion and shedding of transonic fan blades in ice wind tunnel environment[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2026 , 47(11) : 633026 -633026 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2026.33026

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