Guozhi Li¹, Yihua Cao^2,*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 235-252, 2021, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2021.014814

Abstract The wake generated by the rotor of a helicopter can exert a strong interference effect on the fuselage and the horizontal/vertical tail. The occurrence of icing on the rotor can obviously make this interplay more complex. In the present study, numerical simulation is used to analyze the rotor wake in icing conditions. In order to validate the overall mathematical/numerical method, the results are compared with similar data relating to other tests; then, different simulations are conducted considering helicopter forward flight velocities of 0, 10, 20, 50, and 80 knots and various conditions in terms of air temperature (atmospheric temperature degrading… More >

Koji Fukudome^1,*, Takuya Wada¹, Toma Takahashi¹, Makoto Yamamoto¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.23, No.1, pp. 9-9, 2021, DOI:10.32604/icces.2021.08298

Abstract Icing is a phenomenon that super-cooled droplets impinge and accrete on a solid surface. When the icing occurs on aircraft wings, it deteriorates aerodynamic performances of the wings and the blade cascades of the engine, which may lead to severe accidents. Although number of investigations have been performed both experimentally and numerically [1], the icing shape prediction is now not practically complete due to the complex aspect of icing phenomena. In the previous research, Toba et al. [2] employed an explicitmoving particles simulation method (referred as E-MPS method), which was based on the Lagrangian approach, to reproduce the icing process… More >