Overview of Icing Physics Relevant to Scaling

An overview of icing scaling parameters for supercooled large drop icing conditions in icing wind tunnels

“…However, there are still some disagreements on the selection of dimensionless number of dynamic characteristics. Whether it is the Weber number of water droplets, or the Weber number of wall surface, or the Weber number of water film thickness needs further exploration and verification [20].…”

Boundary-layer transition model for icing simulations of rotating wind turbine blades

“…At the same time, the size of modern wind turbines continues to grow [7], while icing wind tunnels that can contain contemporary wind turbine blades are not yet available. Studies of icing-induced flow transition continue J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 3 to be conducted with the aid of numerical simulations and limited similarity methods [8] applied to icing wind tunnel experiments.…”

Numerical method to predict ice accretion shapes and performance penalties for rotating vertical axis wind turbines under icing conditions

“…The aid of numerical simulation is desperately needed to predict the ice accretion shapes and performance degradation of ice-covered VAWTs, because the parameters to satisfy the similarity of the ice shapes are veiled (Anderson and Tsao, 2003). However, a proper numerical method for VAWTs icing has not been suggested due to the following significant challenges.…”