This paper studied the unsteadiness of vortex motion produced by a three-dimensional wing section with horn/ridge ice contamination. Using improved delayed detached eddy simulation method, multi-scale vortex and their associated flow structures were successfully captured. Results have shown a diversity of unsteadiness scales at different time series, including shear layer instability, vortex pairing, co-rotating and breaking up. Proper orthogonal decomposition was then introduced to extract the characteristic vortex shedding modes with scheduling the eigenvalues λi from large to small. The dominate and secondary proper orthogonal decomposition modes under horn ice condition were displayed, which could be illustrated as fluctuations near recirculation zone, and large-scale vortex shedding/reattaching motion, respectively. The proper orthogonal decomposition modal characteristics for ridge ice showed that vortex scales varied from large to small. The trajectory of large-scale vortex reattaching and co-rotating exist simultaneously with the pressure peak and recover, which also verified the association of proper orthogonal decomposition modes with different scales of vortices. Future works would be presented on demonstration of the complex structures and the dynamic features in such flow.
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