Review of wind turbine icing modelling approaches

F Martini, LT Contreras Montoya, A Ilinca - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
When operating in cold climates, wind turbines are vulnerable to ice accretion. The main
impact of icing on wind turbines is the power losses due to geometric deformation of the iced …

Sensitivity of ice accretion and aerodynamic performance degradation to critical physical and modeling parameters affecting airfoil icing

LP Raj, K Yee, RS Myong - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding ice accretion and aerodynamic performance degradation is essential in any
aircraft certification program to ensure safe flight in icing conditions. In addition to well …

[PDF][PDF] Recent advances in CFD for in-flight icing simulations

WG Habashi - Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, 2009 - Citeseer
This invited paper will reflect on some of the advances made in the last decade by the author
and his research groups in the application of modern CFD methods to the simulation of in …

Scaled ice accretion experiments on a rotating wind turbine blade

Y Han, J Palacios, S Schmitz - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2012 - Elsevier
This work presents ice accretion tests of a model wind turbine blade mounted on a rotor test
stand. The model test blade was scaled to reproduce local flow and icing conditions at the …

Electro-thermal heating element with a nickel-plated carbon fabric for the leading edge of a wing-shaped composite application

J Lee, H Jo, H Choe, D Lee, H Jeong, H Lee… - Composite structures, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a wing-shaped composite structure that uses an electroless nickel-plated
carbon fabric as an electro-thermal heating element, thus improving the electrical and …

Numerical simulation of three-dimensional ice accretion on an aircraft wing

Y Cao, J Huang, J Yin - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016 - Elsevier
A method based on the Eulerian two-phase flow theory and the extended heat transfer
model for numerically simulating three-dimensional ice accretions on an aircraft wing is …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Fiber Bragg grating sensors ice detection: Methodologies and performance

M González, M Frövel - Sensors and actuators A: Physical, 2022 - Elsevier
New Researches have been done recently in order to create and adapt new systems to the
recent Appendix O FAR 25 Aeronautical aircraft icing regulations. One important issue are …

A CFD approach for modeling the rime-ice accretion process on a horizontal-axis wind turbine

P Fu, M Farzaneh - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2010 - Elsevier
The main objective of this paper is to model the rime-ice accretion process on a horizontal-
axis wind turbine (HAWT) operating under icing conditions. The model calculation …

Study on small wind turbine icing and its performance

L Shu, J Liang, Q Hu, X Jiang, X Ren, G Qiu - Cold Regions Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wind turbines often suffer from severe ice during winter. Ice on the blades changes the airfoil
profile, thereby causing wind turbine power loss. The icing characteristics and output of …