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Numerical simulation of droplet impingement and film flow for three-dimensional wings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2024

Z. Xu Open the ORCID record for Z. Xu [Opens in a new window] ,
X. Zeng ,
S. Yang  and
J. Yang
Z. Xu*
Affiliation:
College of Safety Science and Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
X. Zeng
Affiliation:
College of Safety Science and Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
S. Yang
Affiliation:
College of Safety Science and Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
J. Yang
Affiliation:
College of Safety Science and Engineering, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
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Corresponding author: Z. Xu; Email: zkxu@cauc.edu.cn
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Abstract

In order to investigate the three-dimensional effects on the flow characteristics of the thin water film for the three-dimensional wings, the numerical simulation of the droplet impingement and film flow on the MS-0317 wing is implemented based on the open-source package OpenFOAM. The simulation focuses on the effects of the angle-of-attack and the angle of sweepback. The movement and impingement of the droplets are calculated using the Lagrangian method, and the film flow is simulated using the thin film assumption and the finite area method. The simulation of the water film flow of the three-dimensional MS-0317 wing shows that there is a spanwise flow of the water film due to the three-dimensional effects. This suggests that more research should be conducted on the warm glaze ice with surface water film of three-dimensional ice accretion on three-dimensional geometries.

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numerical simulationdroplet impingementfilm flowfinite area methodthree-dimensional effects

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 128 , Issue 1324 , June 2024 , pp. 1302 - 1322
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Aeronautical Society

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